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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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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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The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love. – James Baldwin

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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. – James Baldwin

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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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There is no robber worse than a bad book. – Italian Proverb

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A wicked book cannot repent. – Proverb

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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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What a cruel thing war is… to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors. – Robert E. Lee

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I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition. – Eric Stoltz

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Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains…. But it can put mountains where there are none. – Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 1879

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