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What Reading Teaches you – James Baldwin QUOTES FOR WRITERS (AND READERS)

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.
James Baldwin

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5 comments on “What Reading Teaches you – James Baldwin QUOTES FOR WRITERS (AND READERS)”

  1. Glen Available
    March 17, 2024
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    Great quote from writer James Baldwin (1924 – 1987) who apparently was a good friend of singer Nina Simone. A famous story about Baldwin is that one of the many menial jobs he took on to support his writing was working in a meat-packing plant. Unfortunately he was fired because he fell asleep on the job. Makes you think that maybe he dozed off because he’d been up the previous night doing his writing into the deep-dark hours.

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  2. beth
    March 17, 2024
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    great quote

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