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The act of witnessing is important to me; somebody's got to tell the truth, you know what I mean?

~Athol Fugard

Topics: Act Got Important Know Me Mean Somebody Tell Truth Witnessing You

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From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a jazz pianist and also a very good storyteller, an avid reader. He passed both those interests on to me.

~Athol Fugard

Topics: Also Avid Both Early Father Filled Good He Interests Jazz Life Me Music My Life Passed Pianist Reader Storyteller Storytelling Them Things Those Two Very Were

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I can't think of a single one of my plays that does not represent a coincidence between an external and an internal event. Something outside of me, outside even my own life, something I read in a newspaper or witness on the street, something I see or hear, fascinates me. I see it for its dramatic potential.

~Athol Fugard

Topics: Between Coincidence Does Dramatic Even Event External Fascinates Hear Internal Life Me My Own Newspaper Outside Own Plays Potential Read Represent See Single Something Street Think Witness I See

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Nobody can take what I love away from me. I would like to believe that love is the only energy I've ever used as a writer. I've never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.

~Athol Fugard

Topics: Although Anger Away Believe Energy Ever Informed Like Love Love Is Me Never Nobody Only Out Take Used Would Writer Written I Love

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With so many young playwrights, the true craft of writing for living voices is not what it used to be. They write for attention spans of 10 minutes between adverts.

~Athol Fugard

Topics: Attention Between Craft Living Many Minutes Playwrights Spans True Used Voices Write Writing Young

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In South Africa, success never presented the problems that it presents in New York. In New York, if you happen to be the flavor of the month, a lot of nonsense comes with it into your life.

~Athol Fugard

Topics: Africa Flavor Happen Life Lot Month Never New New York Nonsense Presented Presents Problems South South Africa Success York You Your

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A very close friend of mine keeps reminding me that since about the age of 50, I've been saying, 'I'm finished. I haven't got another one in me.' But somehow you do.

~Athol Fugard

Topics: About Age Another Been Close Finished Friend Got Keeps Me Mine Reminding Saying Since Somehow Very You

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People come to the Fountain Theatre because they've got hearts that are working and they've got heads that are working. They use the Fountain Theatre because it puts them in touch with the world that they're living in.

~Athol Fugard

Topics: Because Come Fountain Got Heads Hearts Living People Puts Theatre Them Touch Use Working World

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I think all of my writing life led up to the writing of 'The Train Driver' because it deals with my own inherited blindness and guilt and all of what being a white South African in South Africa during those apartheid years meant.

~Athol Fugard

Topics: Africa African Apartheid Because Being Blindness Deals Driver Guilt Inherited Led Life Meant My Own Own South South Africa South African Think Those Train Up White Writing Years I Think

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My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't really have a function as a useful artist in that anymore.

~Athol Fugard

Topics: Anymore Apartheid Artist Been Believed Defined Democracy Era Function Going Had Life My Life Now Really Useful Were Years

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Biography

Nationality: South African

Type: Playwright

Born: June 11th, 1932

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