Quote by James Baldwin
Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it. - Ja

Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it. – James Baldwin

Other quotes by James Baldwin

It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be. – James Baldwin

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Charity
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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours. – James Baldwin

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Belief
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When the book comes out it may hurt you — but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself. – James Baldwin

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Reading
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Other Quotes from
Experience
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If people choose to live their life in a way that does not confront the more troubling aspects of their experience, thats fine, if it works for them. But it will probably make them uncomfortable if they come up against somebody like me. So they just shouldnt! They shouldnt read my work! – Joyce Maynard

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Experience

The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time. – Muhammad Iqbal

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Experience

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs. – Christopher Lasch

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Experience

In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds. – Thor Heyerdahl

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Experience

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I work with all these amazing voice actors that do a kajillion voices. – Katey Sagal

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Ive never been on a fad diet. – Denise Van Outen

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diet

The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Family

I wasnt always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom. – Janet Evanovich

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mom