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I am insisting on reading James Baldwin even though the wind keeps flapping the pages. Anguished voices scream and moan from the pages. Compressed ghettos threaten to explode.
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“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
“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another.”
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“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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A Group on the books of Stefan Zweig, starting with his Memoirs, The World from Yesterday.
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