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Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or a moaning dove.
Invisible Man (1952)
Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
Invisible Man (1952)
But we are all human, I thought, wondering what I meant.
Invisible Man (1952)
The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.
Invisible Man (1952)
Responsibility rests upon recognition, and recognition is a form of agreement.
Invisible Man (1952)
I want you to overcome 'em with yeses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction, let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open."
Invisible Man (1952)
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.
Invisible Man (1952)
Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled "File and forget."
Invisible Man (1952)
I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.
Invisible Man (1952)
The truth is the light and light is the truth.
Invisible Man (1952)
I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.
Invisible Man (1952)
It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.
Invisible Man (1952)
And I knew that it was better to live out one's own absurdity than to die for that of others.
Invisible Man (1952)
Whence all this passion toward conformity anyway?—diversity is the word.
Invisible Man (1952)
A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
Invisible Man (1952)
Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?
Invisible Man (1952)
I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time been ashamed.
Invisible Man (1952)
And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies as well as for individuals.
Invisible Man (1952)
For now I had begun to believe, despite all the talk of science around me, that there was a magic in spoken words.
Invisible Man (1952)
Everywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my good—only they were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?
Invisible Man (1952)