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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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Words like freedom, justice, democracy are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply. – James Baldwin

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Humanity
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James Baldwin
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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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James Baldwin
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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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Authors & Writing

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. – Walter Bagehot

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Authors & Writing

Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm. – Joseph Addison

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Authors & Writing

Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written. – Anon.

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Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter – Like a fair picture when misfortune comes – A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting. – Aeschylus

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If you dont fail now and again, its a sign youre playing it safe. – Woody Allen

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Just that working with Clint again is like coming home. – Morgan Freeman

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Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles. – Don Marquis

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