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Once Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced…
- 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…
- In overlooking, denying, evading this complexity--which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves--we are diminished and we perish; only within this web of…
- These boys, now, were living as we'd been living then, they were growing up with a rush and their heads bumped abruptly against the low…
- It happened, as many things do, imperceptibly, in many ways at once. I date it - the slow crumbling of my faith, the pulverization of…
- For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.
- I don't know, now, when I first looked at Hella and found her stale, found her body uninteresting, her presence grating. It seemed to happen…
More Once Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'. — Richard Armour