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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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No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. – James Baldwin

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The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly. – 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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Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. – Mortimer J. Adler

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The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell. – Proverb

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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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Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know. – Jim Rohn

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Vengeance is not the point change is. But the trouble is that in most peoples minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide. – Barbara Deming

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As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession. – Bo Bennett

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