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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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Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. – James Baldwin

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But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power. – James Baldwin

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The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters, is this, that they can multiply their originals; or rather, can make copies of their works, to what number they please, which shall be as valuable as the originals themselves. – Joseph Addison

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

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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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The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living. – James Robertson

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Its not that our family has no taste, its just that our familys taste is inconsistent. – Dave Eggers

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Anyone who seeks to be involved in politics should join hands with America. – Muqtada al Sadr

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Mens indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior. – Thucydides

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