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My organs are too powerful . . . I manufacture blood and fat too rapidly.


Robert Baldwin

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JAMES BALDWIN All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forc...
JAMES BALDWIN Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibilit...
JAMES BALDWIN We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied ...
JAMES BALDWIN The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
JAMES BALDWIN Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and stre...
JAMES BALDWIN Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocu...
JAMES BALDWIN I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
ALEC BALDWIN Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.
JAMES BALDWIN He may be a very nice man. But I haven't got the time to figure that out. All I know is, he's got a ...
JAMES BALDWIN The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.
JAMES BALDWIN Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated and this was an immut...
JAMES BALDWIN What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity f...
MONICA BALDWIN The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.
JAMES BALDWIN I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
STANLEY BALDWIN For I am—or I was—one of those people who pride themselves in on their willpower, on their abili...
JAMES BALDWIN I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on th...
JAMES BALDWIN I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of th...
MONICA BALDWIN I've heard it said of faith that first we jump, and then we grow wings. Integrity is like that too, ...
MATT BALDWIN