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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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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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It’s the place to begin, always — to return to home, literally.
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I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we’d never smelled the fumes of petroleum.
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I don’t really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
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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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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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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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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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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome.
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I’m not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I’ve never understood.
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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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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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The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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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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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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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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Sadness is twilight’s kiss on earth.
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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 think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.
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As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.
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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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Be Just Ultimate Yourself
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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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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