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Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.

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But when you’re deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it’s amazing.
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Arts and the Sciences are a natural symbiosis. They stem from the same human existential impulse – exploration. Exploration of what lies beneath the surface, and re-confuguration of elements of what we call reality.
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Intolerance has become, I think, the reigning ideology of the world today, the intolerance versus intolerance and it’s taken on lethal proportions.
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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
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History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
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Each time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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We all have our individual artistic temperaments as well as partisanships in creative directions. And we have strong opinions on the merits of the products of our occupation.
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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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I am a very curious person; I’ll always ask: is this thing true, is it not true? And I use my own means to investigate and come to my conclusion.
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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you’re deprived of it.
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What I teach is literary criticism and comparative literature and so on and that’s my function, but from time to time it’s possible for me actually to help a writer. I read something and something strikes me then, I feel I can talk to that writer about it.
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My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had a tendency to make up my own elementary variations on stories I had heard, or to invent totally new ones.
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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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Intolerance has always been with us, you know. The moment you have ideology, we have intolerance, whether it’s the secular ideology or, you know ideocratic ideology, which always brings with it some kind of intolerance.
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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you’re actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
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And gradually they’re beginning to recognize the fact that there’s nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it’s sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.
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Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there’s a lot of work to be done.
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I never hesitated, as a student, in embracing the necessity of violence. In South Africa, I didn’t just accept it; I looked forward to it as a mission.
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