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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…
• 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…
• The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look…
• In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest.…

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