I shall never be able to have any more of these boyish, zestful affairs - which are, really, when one thinks about it, a kind of higher, or, anyway, more pretentious masturbation. People are too various to be treated so lightly. (James Baldwin)

I shall never be able to have any more of these boyish, zestful affairs - which are, really, when one thinks about it, a kind of higher, or, anyway, more pretentious masturbation. People are too various to be treated so lightly.

James Baldwin

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