Tuesday, March 24, 2009

on the same page

of James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room:

But people can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.
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People are too various to be treated lightly. I am too various to be trusted. If this were not so I would not be alone in this house tonight.

3 comments:

Phunk said...

i don't know how i came across your blog, but i appreciate it from a stranger's perspective. your writing is beautiful.

le sophistiqué said...

WINSTON SCARLETT! I didn't know you had a blog.

wimp said...

surprise, surprise Sunny D.
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