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

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The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love. – James Baldwin

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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. – James Baldwin

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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. – Theodore Bikel

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Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth. – Theodor Adorno

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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. – Martha Graham

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. – Anais Nin

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There is no thief worse than a bad book. – Italian Proverb

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I think I am done with Wikipedia for the time being. But I have a secret hope. Someone recently proposed a Wikimorgue – a bin of broken dreams where all rejects could still be read, as long as they werent libelous or otherwise illegal. – Nicholson Baker

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Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they dont know what they are conserving. – Robertson Davies

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A good husband makes a good wife. – John Florio

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