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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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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours. – James Baldwin

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Belief
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James Baldwin
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Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty — necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels. – James Baldwin

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Christianity
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James Baldwin
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. – Amos Bronson Alcott

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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

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. – W. H. Auden

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

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