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A desert is a place without expectation.

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People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

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The facts are always less than what really happened.

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Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.

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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.

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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.

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Biography

Nationality: South African

Type: Novelist

Born: November 20th, 1923

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