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When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun t

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. – James Baldwin

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It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be. – James Baldwin

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Charity
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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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Belief
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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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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced—even a Proverb is no proverb to you till your Life has illustrated it. – John Keats, letter to George and Georgiana Keats, February 24, 1819

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And in spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. – George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), Daniel Deronda (Book II, Meeting Streams), 1876

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Say what you want without saying it yourself: quote. Very useful, this, sometimes lovely, and versatile, too: big thoughts in small pieces, neatly wrapped and bundled in bulk, in different flavors for different tastes. – Willis Goth Regier, Quotology, 2010

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[D]ifferent people have different quotational gravity. – Willis Goth Regier, Quotology, 2010

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Every few seconds it changes – up an eighth, down an eighth – its like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million. – Ted Turner

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