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Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.

~Damon Galgut

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Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.

~Damon Galgut

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Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye.

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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.

~Damon Galgut

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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.

~Damon Galgut

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One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about lying. Because fiction is a form of deceit, and one's abilities are measured by how convincingly one can persuade readers that these events really happened.

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While apartheid was in operation, the set-up was a gift for writers if you were looking for a big theme.

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I'm fascinated by how much has changed from one generation to another. There are young people growing up now for whom apartheid is just a distant memory and the idea of military service is an abstract notion.

~Damon Galgut

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Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.

~Damon Galgut

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Traveling is one of few zones of experience where you are not directly plugged into the world around you. You're not part of the society you're passing through.

~Damon Galgut

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Biography

Nationality: South African

Type: Playwright

Born: November 12th, 1963

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