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

Other quotes by James Baldwin

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons. – James Baldwin

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Sons
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Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field. – James Baldwin

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America
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He may be a very nice man. But I havent got the time to figure that out. All I know is, hes got a uniform and a gun and I have to relate to him that way. Thats the only way to relate to him because one of us may have to die. – James Baldwin

Category:
Control
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Other Quotes from
Experience
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Directing is a more pragmatic experience, where you have to deal with the restrictions of time and money that force you to make certain decisions you dont have to make when youre writing. – Charlie Kaufman

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Experience

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius. – E. M. Forster

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Experience

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost. – William Ellery Channing

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Experience

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe. – Florence Nightingale

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Experience

Random Quotes

One death is a tragedy one million is a statistic. – Joseph Stalin

Category:
Death

Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children. – Sitting Bull

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Life

All youd have to do is get a sad look, and hed try to do something for you. – Margaret OBrien

Category:
sad

I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites. – Tony Hillerman

Category:
Attitude