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Quotes from Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone — James Baldwin

1924–1987 United States

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Everyone wishes to be loved, but, in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone (1968)

a child’s major attention has to be concentrated on how to fit into a world which, with every passing hour, reveals itself as merciless.

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone (1968)

Now, for the first time, I began to be aware of my heart, the heart itself: and with this awareness, conscious terror came. I realized that I knew nothing whatever about the way we are put together; and I realized that what I did not know might be in the process of killing me.

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone (1968)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: James Baldwin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.