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In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition.


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RALPH FIENNES I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
RALPH FIENNES I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic...
RALPH FIENNES There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it ve...
RALPH FIENNES There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and sud...
RALPH FIENNES God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlighten...
RALPH FIENNES Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.
RALPH FIENNES Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
RALPH ELLISON There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
RALPH ELLISON Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
RALPH ELLISON The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and...
RALPH ELLISON Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
RALPH ELLISON By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You migh...
RALPH ELLISON Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him...
RALPH ELLISON America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become...
RALPH ELLISON When I discover who I am, I'll be free.
RALPH ELLISON Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to ha...
RALPH ELLISON I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might e...
RALPH ELLISON Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain de...
RALPH ELLISON