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There is no way of conveying to the corpse the reasons you have made him one --you have the corpse, and you are, thereafter, at the mercy of a fact which missed the truth, which means that the corpse has you.

Source: The Price of The Ticket, The Devil Finds Work, sct. 2 (1985; first published 1976).
-- James Baldwin, (Aug 2 1924-1987), US novelist, essayist; He was a noted spokesman for American blacks in 1950s-60s.

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