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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…
• A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
• Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat with paws…
• There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
• The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look…
• What matters most is that we learn from living.
• Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.
• And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers,…
• Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes…
• Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was a great…

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