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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…
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When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it…
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She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more…
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A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
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Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat with paws…
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The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look…
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It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the…
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You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing.
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[At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I…
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and…
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Didn't know what I was doing but I put on a cape Now it's which world tour should I go on &…
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How many murders are committed in Gauteng, or in the Western Cape, in a month? A week? A day? An hour? But…
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And Cape Town is not what it used to be. Foreigners have left their imprint on our culture.
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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped…
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On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived…
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Then he knew that they had rounded the cape of good hope, and he took her large, soft hand again and covered…
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