Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
JAMES BALDWINPeople can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.
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Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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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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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody
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When you’re writing you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know.
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Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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