James Arthur Baldwin quotes
Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.

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Suggest Revision: Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.
 

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Suggest Revision: The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.
 
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Suggest Revision: Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.
 
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Suggest Revision: Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance.
 
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Suggest Revision: The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
 
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Suggest Revision: To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.
 
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