Quote by James Baldwin
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists

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

Other quotes by James Baldwin

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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Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty — necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels. – James Baldwin

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Christianity
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An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience. – James Baldwin

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Experience
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Art
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Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you. – Martha Beck

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Art

Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms havent. – Jonathan Safran Foer

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Art

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise be wise and thou art happy. – Akhenaton

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Art

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable. – Charles Baudelaire

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Art

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Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces. – Terry Pratchett

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No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it. – Guy H. King

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Prayer

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my lifes work. – Karl Jaspers

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Birthday

Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world. – Gwendolyn Brooks

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