James Baldwin's Quote - The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an

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The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly side. – James Baldwin

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Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits. – James Baldwin

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The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land. – James Baldwin

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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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The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years. – C. Wright Mills

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People dont choose their careers; they are engulfed by them. – John Dos Passos

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If I had my career over again? Maybe Id say to myself, speed it up a little. – Jimmy Stewart

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Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. – John Dryden

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