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Quote by James Baldwin
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of th

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him. – James Baldwin

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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to ones beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses. – James Baldwin

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The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly. – James Baldwin

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A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream. – Gaston Bachelard

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If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, Id type a little faster. – Isaac Asimov

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To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do. – Aristotle

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We travel to learn and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own. – Maria Mitchell

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The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it. – Mao Zedong

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Good sayings are like pearls strung together. – Chinese Proverb

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The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a persons belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others. – Arthur C. Brooks

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