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"People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves."

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MORE QUOTES BY James Baldwin

“The effect of such a confession—that one's value is the same as anyone else's—is that ...”

James Baldwin

“Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.”

“The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you can alter, even by a mill...”

“The price of the ticket is the metaphor that the child pays for the ticket into the white ...”

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