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James Baldwin

  • Anaghaciteerde uitvorig jaar
    I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.
  • b0226945195citeerde uit4 maanden geleden
    And she carried him, as the sea will carry a boat: with a slow, rocking and rising and falling motion, barely suggestive of the violence of the deep.
  • Ольга Выросткоciteerde uit7 maanden geleden
    And what did he know about them really, except that they were ashamed of him? They didn’t know that he was real. It seemed that they didn’t, for that matter, know that they were real, but he was insufficiently simple to find this notion comforting.
  • Ольга Выросткоciteerde uit6 maanden geleden
    You said once,’ he said, ‘that you wanted to grow. Isn’t that always frightening? Doesn’t it always hurt?’
  • Ольга Выросткоciteerde uit6 maanden geleden
    It doesn’t do any good to blame the people or the time – one is oneself all those people. We are the time.’
  • darya vinocurciteerde uit5 maanden geleden
    advertised the chewing gum which would help one to relax and keep smiling
  • darya vinocurciteerde uit5 maanden geleden
    Entirely alone, and dying of it, he was part of an unprecedented multitude
  • darya vinocurciteerde uit5 maanden geleden
    who were held back from his condition by barriers as perishable as their dwindling cigarettes
  • darya vinocurciteerde uit5 maanden geleden
    They could scarcely bear their knowledge, nor could they have borne the sight of Rufus, but they knew why he was in the streets tonight, why he rode subways all night long, why his stomach growled, why his hair was nappy, his armpits funky, his pants and shoes too thin, and why he did not dare to stop and take a leak
  • darya vinocurciteerde uit5 maanden geleden
    Someone would look at him with horror, then turn back to his business with a long-drawn-out, pitying, Man
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