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Quote by James Baldwin
When the book comes out it may hurt you -- but in order for me to

When the book comes out it may hurt you — but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself. – 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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Education
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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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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library. – Jane Austen

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In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. – Mortimer J. Adler

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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. – W. H. Auden

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Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding places in a voluminous writer. – Joseph Addison

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The era of true peace on earth will not come as long as a tremendous percentage of your taxes goes to educate men in the trades of slaughter. – Reginald Wright Kauffman

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There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war. – George McGovern

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Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. – Margaret Thatcher

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In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark. – Nicholson Baker

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