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

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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Immigration
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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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Reading
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Other Quotes from
Career, Vocation
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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

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

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

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

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Children may not notice the positive moments in life unless we point them out to them. – Deborah Norville

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positive

I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. Ive always had a very close relationship with them. – Anne Rice

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Man dies of cold, not of darkness. – Miguel de Unamuno

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