We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
JAMES BALDWINFreedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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People can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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The impossible is the least that one can demand.
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If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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