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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.

Wole Soyinka

A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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Does Proclaim Pounce Tiger Tigribute
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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Asleep Certain Children Father Fell Gather Point Story Use
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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Actually Comparative Criticism Function Literacy Literature Possible Something Strike Talk Teach Time Writer
Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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Earth Sadness Twilight
The media must be used effectively to reach the masses. You have to find a new language in which to address the people and demonstrate what is possible.
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Address Demonstrate Effectively Find Language Mass Media Must New People Reach Use
Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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Appear Human Other Shudder Sometimes Think Winter
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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All Companionship Deprive Devise Human Kind Length Period Survive
Well, some people say I’m pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind right up to this moment and what do you find?
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Cycle Eternal Evil People Pessimistic Recognizing Say Some
There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?
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Home Idea Life Man Mussel One Only River Shell Soul Tortoise
Each time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
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Create Disrupt Each Myself Private Some Space Think Throwback Time
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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Always Been Ideology Intolerance Moment Secular Wether
For me, justice is the prime condition of humanity.
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Condition For Humanity Justice Prime
Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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Continue Illusion Reality Reject Safety Seriously Shadow
And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
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Believe Best Kind Learn Look Other Process Work
Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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Fragrance Heart Offer Romance Soul Sticken Sweetening
Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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Be Just Ultimate Yourself

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