James Arthur Baldwin Quotes & Sayings

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 Writers quotes 
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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Suggest Revision: Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
 
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Suggest Revision: It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.
 
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 People quotes 
Suggest Revision: People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
 
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 Sex quotes   Money quotes 
Suggest Revision: Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.
 
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Suggest Revision: It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.
 
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