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Language Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
- When you’re writing, you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know. The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you…
- Perhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I know in the…
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