Trying Quotes by Ralph Ellison

Ralph Ellison

I was pulled this way and that for longer than I can remember. And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone’s way but my own. I have also been called one thing and then another while no one really wished to hear what I called myself. So after years of trying to adopt the opinions of others I finally rebelled. I am an invisible man.

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Ralph Ellison

The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.

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Ralph Ellison

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?

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Ralph Ellison

You start Saul, and end up Paul,’ my grandfather had often said. ‘When you’re a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul – though you still Sauls around on the side.

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Trying Quotes by Ralph Ellison

The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?

You start Saul, and end up Paul,’ my grandfather had often said. ‘When you’re a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul – though you still Sauls around on the side.

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