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I write because I have authority from life to do so.

Bessie Head

I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me. That is why I write.
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Building Stars Writing
Poverty has a home in Africalike a quiet second skin.It may be the only place on earth where it is worn with unconscious dignity.
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Earth Home Skins
A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people.
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Attitude Discipline People
Love is mutually feeding each other, not one living on another like a ghoul.
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Feeding Ghouls Love
People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations.
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Character People Suffering
I might really have gone round the bend. I mean people who get visions and see a gigantic light descend on them from the sky can’t be all there but if so I feel mighty happy. If one is happy and cracked it’s much better than being unhappy and sane.
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Light Mean Sky
Money will hit me at a big off-period and genius will hit me in starvation, that is, I often get the money when I don’t think I deserve it and have been lolling around for days and days thinking the most abysmal thoughts.
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Around Loving Money Period
I write because I have authority from life to do so.
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Authority Life Writing
I have often noticed that the need for cash and the production of a masterpiece just don’t coincide with me.
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Genius Needs Thinking
It seemed to be a makeshift replacement for love, absenting oneself from stifling atmospheres, because love basically was a torrential storm of feeling; it thrived only in partnership with laughing generosity and truthfulness.
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Feelings Generosity Laughing

I write because I have authority from life to do so.

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