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Breyten Breytenbach has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Even ivory towers need central heating.
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Leaving traces of ourselves, as in creative productivity, could then be seen as part of the definition of consciousness for us as…
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Americans have mastered the art of living with the unacceptable.
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The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.
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Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I…
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I came, I saw, I was confused.
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You ride astride the imaginary in order to hunt down the real.
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I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.
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In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency,…
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In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.
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The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake…
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Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy…
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Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke…
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One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor…
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One writes to teach, to move or to delight.
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As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.
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No one put a gun to your head and ordered you to become a writer. One writes out of his own choice…
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One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time, in others' minds.
— Alfred Kazin
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One writes to find words' meanings.
— Joy Williams
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One writes out of one thing only-one's own experience,
— James A. Baldwin
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What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem -…
— Paul Muldoon
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men?…
— Jackie Collins
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When one writes, there’s the double horror of discovering not only what it is that one so fears but also the triviality…
— Deborah Eisenberg
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One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.
— Stephen Dobyns
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