Ralph Ellison livro Invisible Man
Fonte: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 12.
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“Play the game, but don't believe in it.”
Ralph Ellison livro Invisible Man
Fonte: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 7.
“Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.”
"If the Twain Shall Meet" (1964), inThe Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 569.
“…there are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.”
Ralph Ellison livro Invisible Man
Prologue.
Invisible Man (1952)
Ralph Ellison livro Invisible Man
Epilogue.
Invisible Man (1952)
Ralph Ellison livro Invisible Man
Fonte: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 23.
“Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled "File and forget."”
Ralph Ellison livro Invisible Man
Epilogue.
Invisible Man (1952)
“It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.”
Ralph Ellison livro Invisible Man
Prologue.
Invisible Man (1952)
“Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.”
Ralph Ellison livro Three Days Before the Shooting...
Fonte: Three Days Before the Shooting... (2010), p. 311.
Ralph Ellison livro Invisible Man
Prologue (opening paragraph of novel).
Invisible Man (1952)
"Remembering Jimmy" (1958), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 277.
“When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.”
"Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke" (1958), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 108.
“Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.”
Ralph Ellison livro Invisible Man
Fonte: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 1.
Ralph Ellison livro Invisible Man
Fonte: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 5.
"Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke" (1958), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1955), p. 104.
“Closed societies are now the flimsiest of illusions, for all the outsiders are demanding in.”
"Society, Morality and the Novel" (1957), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 726.
“But we are all human, I thought, wondering what I meant.”
Ralph Ellison livro Invisible Man
Fonte: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 11.
"Society, Morality and the Novel" (1957), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 699.
"Richard Wright's Blues" (1945), in The Collected Essays, ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 129.
As quoted in "An American Novelist Who Sometimes Teaches" by John Corry http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/06/20/specials/ellison-teaches.html in The New York Times (20 November 1966).
“God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.”
Ralph Ellison livro Three Days Before the Shooting...
Fonte: Three Days Before the Shooting... (2010), p. 987.
Ralph Ellison livro Invisible Man
Fonte: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 5.