James Baldwin

STATUS QUOtes — 20210228

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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“A pig bought on credit is forever grunting.” — Proverb

“Life in the twentieth century [and beyond] undeniably has … such richness, joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams.” — Arthur H. Campton

“When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.” — James Baldwin

“I’ve never won an argument with her; and the only times I thought I had, I found out the argument wasn’t over yet.” — Jimmy Carter

 

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I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20200803

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

 

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“Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.” — Saki

“The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning.” — Natalie Babbitt

“Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.” — James Baldwin

“I don’t have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free.” — George Carlin

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20170729

Jeff

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“Ask a lot, but take what is offered.” — Assyrian Proverb

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” — James Baldwin

“Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.” — Leon J. Suenes

“In Hollywood now when people die they don’t say, ‘Did he leave a will?,’ but ‘Did he leave a diary?’” — Liza Minnelli

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20170409

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“If you don’t sacrifice for what you want, what you want becomes the sacrifice.” — Unknown

“People pay for what they do, and, still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply: by the lives they lead.” — James Baldwin

“One of the scariest things in our lives is actually doing what we know we want to do.” — Cheryl Strayed

“Youth is stranger than fiction.” — Marcelene Cox

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20161202

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“Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.” — Aesop

“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” — James Baldwin

“A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a lifetime’s experience.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“Why would they have book covers if we aren’t supposed to judge the book by them? It makes no sense.” — Ingrid Weir

 

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“Don’t just do what makes you happy…do what makes you great.” — Charlie Day

“I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.” — Audrey Hepburn

“You’ve got to tell the world how to treat you.” — James Baldwin

“There’s many a pessimist who got that way by financing an optimist.” — Unknown

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160221

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“It’s clever, but is it art?” — Rudyard Kipling

“Come, pluck up a good heart; speak the truth and shame the devil.” — François Rabelais

“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.” — James Baldwin

“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they’re going to have some pretty annoying virtues.” — Elizabeth Taylor

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20150415

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“When I had no roof I made audacity my roof.” — Robert Pinsky

“It’s a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.” — James Baldwin

“It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.” — Sally Kempton

“If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?” — Lily Tomlin

STATUS QUOtes — 20150205

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“The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.” — Erich Fromm

“A desk is a terrible place from which to view the world.” — John le Carré

“The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.” — James Baldwin

“I never feel so accomplished as when I open a tough jar.” — Emma Watson