It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive - James Baldwin
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. An artist is a sort of emotional historian.
Author
n 1963, Life magazine interview James Baldwin on where he gets his inspiration.
Reference
Same as Ever - A guide to what never changes - Morgan Housel