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"'Somebody," said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour--and in the oddest places!--for the lack of it."

#Baldwin

#Baldwin, #LaphamsQuarterly and a most recently finished book, on the og abolitionist, Benjamin Lay. Wonderfully fun to read about this righteous 'eccentric'.

Baldwin writes his gay and bi characters with candor. A rarity in the 1950s, when this book was published.
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:: 'Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety..'
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