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Legends 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.
- Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that…
- Heavenly witnesses are a tricky lot, to be used by whoever is closest to Heaven at the time. And legend and theology, which are designed…
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- Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it. — James A. Baldwin
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