Quote by James Baldwin
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

Other quotes by James Baldwin

Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. – James Baldwin

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Listening
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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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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid the state of being alone. – James Baldwin

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alone
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Other Quotes from
Career, Vocation
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If I had my career over again? Maybe Id say to myself, speed it up a little. – Jimmy Stewart

Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience. – Mother Theresa

The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent. – E. M. Forster

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

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There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization. – Brad Henry

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Politics

I sort of feel that climate change will be solved by science. I just feel instinctively that we will find a way of saving ourselves. But I am less confident that we wont destroy ourselves in other ways. – Richard Eyre

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Science

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. – Marcus Aurelius

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Happiness

I love seeing people having fun. Everyone over in L.A. is too cool for it. Thats the problem. – Lukas Haas

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cool