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If you ask me if I think I will be sober in 24 hours time I can say yes, but in two years I can't tell you. I could be dead. ↗

— Daniel Baldwin

#could #dead #hours #i #i can

The one thing that disturbs me about Alec is that people don't realize that he's really funny. ↗

— Daniel Baldwin

#alec #disturbs #funny #me #one thing

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#also #beacon #fond #fond memories #future

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. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#challenge #future #moment #never #now

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#each #first #first time #happen #happening

Love is the poetry of the senses. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#love is #poetry #senses

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#black #definitions #man #power #refuses

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#action #asks #balance #himself #insane

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. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#day #down #each #earth #go

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

— James A. Baldwin

#calling #intimate #intimate knowledge #knowledge #pays