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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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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up. – James Baldwin

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock. – 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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Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear. – E.S. Barrett

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Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. – Mortimer J. Adler

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Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library. – Nicholson Baker

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