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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 about the native.'…
- Parents should leave books lying around marked ‘forbidden’ if they want their children to read.
- What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.
- ...or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see.
- How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want to...
- Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.
- Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I…
- I remember World War II when there were very few books, very little paper available. For me to walk into a shop or look at…
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