I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
JAMES BALDWINNo man is a devil in his own mind.
More James Baldwin Quotes
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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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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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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