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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 cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.
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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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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.
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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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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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You accept whoever you are interacting with, directly, or indirectly.
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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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Each time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
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Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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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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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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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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There’s a lot of insincerity about the actions of our legislators; they create distractions – like this anti-gay law you alluded to – and try to mobilise, to exacerbate people’s emotions. Until the legislators started making laws, people minded, generally, their own business.
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My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience.
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My definition of slavery is the deprivation of human volition, any form of relationship between two peoples which is based on the deprivation of volition of one side.
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