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Say Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- The world's definitions are one thing and the life one actually lives is quite another. One cannot allow oneself, nor one's family, friends, or lovers…
- People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes…
- Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark. Nobody knows what is going to happen to…
- 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…
- I prefer sinners and madmen, who can learn, who can change, who can teach-or people like myself, if I may say so, who are not…
- I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.
- 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…
- If you are going to be a writer there is nothing I can say to stop you; if you're not going to be a writer…
- If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
- Years ago, when he was around fourteen, he'd been all hipped on the idea of going to India. He read books about people sitting on…
- But to look back from the stony plain along the road which led one to that place is not at all the same thing as…
- how can one respect, let alone adopt, the values of a people who do not, on any level whatever, live the way they say they…
- The moral authority in the Western world is gone. And it is gone forever. It is gone, not because of the criminal record--everybody's record is…
- Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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- My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough. — Lance Armstrong
- I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being… — Neil Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
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- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have… — Mary Kay Ash