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Quote by James Baldwin
Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair. - J

Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair. – James Baldwin

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Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. – James Baldwin

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Listening
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James Baldwin
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock. – James Baldwin

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Change
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James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare– but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them. – James Baldwin

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History
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Other Quotes from
Experience
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So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance. – Isadora Duncan

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Experience

If youre out there stressing on your pro day, then youre not going to perform well, so I plan on having a little fun. Play a little music while were out there throwing the football, have everybody tapping their toes and bobbing their head and just go out there and make the most of the experience. – Robert Griffin III

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Experience

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But its a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, youre not playing yourself. – Ralph Fiennes

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Experience

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description. – David Herbert Lawrence

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Experience

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Im sad and blue, about nobody but you. I told you that I loved you right from the start, you told me the same and now you try to break my little heart. – Leon Redbone

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sad

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. – Samuel Johnson, Boswell, Life of Johnson, 1783

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Self-Discovery

Being a good Hans Haacke student, part of his influence on me is that theres no difference between a gallery show and a film – or even an ad and a T-shirt-in terms of cultural legitimacy. Theyre just different contexts in which to have some sort of communication. – Mike Mills

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communication

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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Society