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Experience Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
- An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
- Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.
- We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.
- The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
- Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give.
- One writes out of one thing only-one's own experience,
- I remember standing on a street corner with the black painter Beauford Delaney down in the Village, waiting for the light to change, and he…
- A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.
- There is something terribly radical about believing that one's own experience and images are important enough to speak about, much less to write about and…
- I will no longer take anyone's word for my experience.
- Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty...the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his…
- One writes out of one thing only--one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter,…
- Experience is a private, very largely speechless affair.
More Experience Quotes
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- Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most… — Thomas Jefferson
- The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. — Chinua Achebe
- Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves… — Bernard Baruch
- The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that… — C.S. Lewis
- If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a… — Dalai Lama
- Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer… — Arthur Conan Doyle