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“He says I'm a regular onion! I keep him busy peeling away the layers.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“I had reasons of my own for believing, remembering the extent of Giovanni's desperation, knowing how far this terror which was so vast that it had simply become a void had driven him. 'Me, I want to escape,' he had told me, 'je veuz m'evader -this dirty world, this dirty body. I never wish to make love with anything more than the body.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“Tell me, he said, "What is this thing about time? Why is it better to be late than early? People are always saying, we must wait, we must wait. what are they waiting for?"

"Well […] I guess people wait in order to make sure of what they feel."

"And when you have waited—-has it made you sure?”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room