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When I say war, I’m not talking about mental war; I’m talking about totally eliminating the obstacles to transformation of our children.

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Religion has really spawned some monsters. It always has, historically. Go all the way back to the Inquisition, you know, the Crusades, the Jehad and so on.
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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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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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I don’t know any other way to live but to wake up everyday armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.
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To achieve any change in the minds of the youth, there must be reorientation in terms of materialistic tendencies, corruption and crime generally.
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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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Don’t take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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We do not ask the mountain’s aid to crack a walnut.
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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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I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to write. I don’t function that way. I go through a long period of gestation before I’m even ready to write.
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