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I just don’t want to be alone in my last decade, that’s all. I wouldn’t know what to think about all day long. I’d sooner have a woman in the same room—even one I didn’t love. But if Phuong left me, would I have the energy to find another? ...more
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As a widower at 55 who doesn’t foresee myself in another relationship I know his feeling, spending my last decade(s) with no companion. I don’t mind being single but in many situations two is better than one. And I think about the nursing home thing. There will not be one.
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James Baldwin
“I don’t believe there’s a white man in this country, baby, who can even get his dick hard, without he hear some nigger moan.”
James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

James Baldwin
“People make you pay for the way you look, which is also the way you think you look, and what time writes in a human face is the record of that collision.”
James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

Iris Murdoch
“Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.”
Iris Murdoch

James Baldwin
“and the whole place looked tired and discouraged, as though wearily about to shave and get dressed for a terrible evening.”
James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

James Baldwin
“His courtesy is as real as her trouble.”
James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

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