So that any writer, looking back over even so short a span of time as I am here forced to assess, finds that the things which hurt him and the things which helped him cannot be divorced from each other; he could be helped in a certain way only because he was hurt in a certain way; and his help is simply to be enabled to move from one conundrum to the next-one is tempted to say that he moves from one disaster to the next.
( James Baldwin )
[ Notes of a Native Son ]
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