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

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It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. – 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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He wrapped himself in quotations—as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. – Rudyard Kipling

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Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation. – Louis Menand, “Notable Quotables: Is there anything that is not a quotation?” 20

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All quotation dictionaries stand on the shoulders of their predecessors, which must be consulted as part of the effort to make sure that no famous quotations are missed. – Fred R. Shapiro, The Yale Book of Quotations, 2006 (Acknowledgements)

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What a good thing Adam had — when he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before. – Mark Twain, 1867

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