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Post reblogged from LIFE OF A DUDE IN PUBLISHING with 14 notes
HOW I FEEL ABOUT THE AWKWARD LANGUAGE IN KEYNOTES OF OUR FRONTLIST EROTICA TITLES
KAAAAATIIIIIE IT’S THE GIF
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- Vivaldo: Are you sleeping with anyone besides Cass?
- Eric: No.
- Vivaldo: I’m sorry. I just thought you might be. I’m not sleeping with anyone except Ida.
- Eric: We can’t be everywhere at once.
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All I can do,” said Eric, at last, “is love him. But this means—doesn’t it?—that I can’t delude myself about loving someone else. I can’t make any promise greater than this promise I’ve made already—not now, not now, and maybe I’ll never make any greater promise. I can’t be safe and sorry, too. I can’t act as though I’m free when I know I’m not. I’ve got to live with that, I’ve got to learn to live with that. Does that make sense? Or am I mad?” There were tears in his eyes. He walked to the kitchen door and stared at Vivaldo. Then he turned away. “You’re right. You’re right. There’s nothing here to decide. There’s everything to accept.
— Another Country, James Baldwin
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You writing?” asked Lorenzo, still smiling. For he was one of those poets who escaped the terrors of writing by writing all the time. He carried a small notebook with him wherever he went and scribbled in it, and when he got drunk enough, read the results aloud. It lay before him, closed, on the table now.
— Another Country, James Baldwin
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He wanted to go home and he wanted to eat and he wanted to get drunk and, also, perhaps out of simple fury, he wanted to get laid—but he did not feel that anything good would happen to him tonight. And he felt that if he were a real writer, he would simply go home and work and throw everything else out of his mind, as Balzac had done and Proust and Joyce and James and Faulkner. But perhaps they had never held in their minds the nameless things he held in his.
— Another Country, James Baldwin
Perhaps it was he who did not know how to give, did not know how to love. Love was a country he knew nothing about.
— Another Country, James Baldwin
What did you do in Paris all that time?”
“Oh” – he smiled – “I tried to grow up.”
“Couldn’t you have done that here? Or didn’t you want to?”
“I don’t know. It was more fun in Paris.”
“I’ll bet.” She crushed out her cigarette. “Have you grown up?”
“I don’t know,” he said, “any longer, if people do.
— Another Country, James Baldwin
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- Richard: Did you leave many broken hearts over there?
- Eric: They were very restrained about it. Those centuries of breeding mean something, you know.
Quote reblogged from A Tempest Inside with 2 notes
‘You’ll be kissing a long time, my friend, before you kiss any of this away’.
— James Baldwin, Another Country (via the-hard-luck-lady)
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