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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."

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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."

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"When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of."

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"A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth."

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"The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time."

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"I knew there were no ghosts in there, but on the other hand, what if there were?"

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"Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us."

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"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."

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"Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom."

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"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."

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"To forsake wisdom is to seek folly, to seek folly is to seek evil, to seek evil is to be in the arms of the devil, and to be in the arms of the devil is be in the arms of death."

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Amber Hurdle

"We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease."

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"Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time."
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"It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind."
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"The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions."
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"Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did."
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"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up."
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"There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now."
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"I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative."
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"There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention."
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"Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned."
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