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I was too trapped in my own skull, that suffocating place, to really like anyone.
“When I returned from Paris, I dropped out of high school and went to work in Grosvenor Library, where I read work by James Baldwin. But it took years for me to discard the myths imposed upon me by an Anglocentric education and popular culture.”
― Mumbo Jumbo
― Mumbo Jumbo
“No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.”
― Beware of Pity
― Beware of Pity
“How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 8:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so? ”
― Factotum
― Factotum
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