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• When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is, 'You have to get used to our ideas…
• When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it…
• She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more…
• Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat with paws…
• A story is how we construct our experiences.
• A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues…
• A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
• There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.

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