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James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may

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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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up. – James Baldwin

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Art
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James Baldwin
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Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden. – James Baldwin

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Society
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Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. – James Baldwin

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Poverty
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Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. Thats why we call it the present. – Babatunde Olatunji

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History

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world. – James K. Polk

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History

In history people dressed much better than we do today. – Vivienne Westwood

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Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than both put together to cheer and follow. – Philip Wylie, Generation of Vipers

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History

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The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble and the rough male kiss of blankets. – Rupert Brooke

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There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working. – Robert Half

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You can only maintain your interest if youre travelling more in ignorance than knowledge. – Chris Morris

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A majority of this country opposes this war, a majority of this country never voted for this administration. – Michael Moore

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