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He wanted to go home and lock his door and sleep. He was tired of the troubles of real people. He wanted to get back to the people he was inventing, whose troubles he could bear.
He wanted to go home and lock his door and sleep. He was tired of the troubles of real people. He wanted to get back to the people he was inventing, whose troubles he could bear.
Approximate author period: c. 1955 AD · modern
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- James Baldwin
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- Approximate author period: c. 1955 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1924 to 1987; Wikidata Q273210, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q273210 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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