Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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Everybody’s journey is individual.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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Literature is indispensable to the world.
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It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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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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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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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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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
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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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We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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