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James Baldwin Quotes

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 2, 1924 - December 1, 1987

Topics

Knowledge Ugly Price Side Calling

The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.

Red Guilty Squirrel Petty More Gray

When I was young, my family didn't go on outings to the circus or trips to Disneyland. We couldn't afford them. Instead, we stayed in our small rural West Texas town, and my parents took us to cemeteries.

Family Parents Small Texas Go Young

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

Love Love Is Young Excitement Old

I thought 'Cabin in the Woods' was really incredible.

Woods Thought Cabin Incredible

I obsess too much.

Meredith Brooks

Too Much Much Too Obsess

I played a lot of mothers before I even became a mother. It wasn't like I set out to be some sort of mother crusader.

Mother Out Mothers Like Even Set

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Life Learning Age Children Early

Most American elementary schools and high schools, and nearly all colleges and universities, teach everything that is significant from a liberal/Left perspective.

Perspective American Teach High Most

My husband is old-fashioned and kind, he does the greatest Sinatra impression, and I'd never have written anything if he hadn't read all those bedtime stories and unloaded the dishwasher while I slaved over chapters.

Allison Pearson

Husband Kind Never Over Anything He

Didn't you know I'm going to be the greatest, most entertaining author and artist in the world? Well, don't feel badly, I didn't either!

World Feel You Artist Know Going

Dance should not just divide people into audience and performers. Everyone should be a participant, whether going to classes or attending special events or rehearsals.

Dance People Special Events Audience

On the contrary, woman is the best equipped fighting machine that ever went to battle.

Richard Le Gallienne

Best Woman Battle Fighting Machine

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