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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.

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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.

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The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.

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There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.

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Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.

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In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.

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As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I don't wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere.

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South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.

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We are not by nature cruel.

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The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.

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Biography

Nationality: South African

Type: Author

Born: February 9th, 1940

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