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Quote by James Baldwin
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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Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned. – James Baldwin

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Exile
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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out. – James Baldwin

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Apothegms form a short cut to much knowledge. – Thomas Hood

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A writer can get into a vast deal of trouble through misquotation. If you ever want to receive lots of mail, I recommend you get a Shakespeare quote wrong in a magazine or newspaper.” – Joseph Epstein, Foreward to Fred Shapiro’s Yale Book of Quotations, 2006

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Quotations

They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge. – Edward Bulwer Lytton

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Quotations

Most collectors collect tangibles. As a quotation collector, I collect wisdom, life, invisible beauty, souls alive in ink. – Terri Guillemets

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Quotations

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So when bands work with me and its 10 oclock, usually youd have to be getting out of the studio, we could go on until 2 in the morning cause its my place! – Billy Sherwood

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Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants. – Jessamyn West

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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict. – Dag Hammarskjold

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Writing for children is bloody difficult books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect. – Mark Haddon

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