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Dead Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even…
- I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. I…
- The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it, nothing can happen ... Perhaps it can't…
- People don't have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you're dead, when they've killed you by…
- People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after…
More Dead Quotes
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and… — David Attenborough
- Canada was built on dead beavers. — Margaret Atwood
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood
- The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden