Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the … - Ralph Ellison

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Each one projects his own defects over the others, each one see in other his own defects.

Ralph Ellison

Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.

Beauty, Conflict, Crafts, Pursuit, Serious, Thematic

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It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

Commitment, Committed, Deep, Grow, Grows

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

Controlled, Face, Failure, Inspiring, Life, Play

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

Confidence, Inspirational, Know, Power, Show

If you can show me how I can cling to that which is real to me, while teaching me a way into the larger society, then and only then will I drop my defenses and hostility, and I will sing your praises and help you to make the desert bear fruit.

Cling, Drop, Real, Singing, Society, Teaching

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.

Except, Glasses, Invisible, Life, Mirrors, Surroundings

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Oswald Chambers

Jesus Christ became Incarnate for one purpose, to make a way back to God that man might stand before Him as He was created to do, the friend and lover of God Himself.

God, Incarnate, Jesus, Men, Purpose

C. S. Lewis

Death and resurrection are what the story is about and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on every page, met us, in some disguise, at every turn, and even been muttered in conversations between such minor characters (if they are minor characters) as the vegetables.

Character, Death, Eye, Page, Turn, Vegetables

Samael Aun Weor

Each one projects his own defects over the others, each one see in other his own defects.

Defects, Projects, See

Hubert H. Humphrey

I believe that each of us can make a difference. That what is wrong can be made right. That people possess the basic wisdom and goodness to govern themselves without conflict.

Believe, Conflict, Differences, Possess, Right, Wisdom

Nicholas Sparks

Men like women who know how to be subtle.

Know, Know How, Like, Men, Subtle