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• The writer cannot be a mere storyteller; he cannot be a mere teacher; he cannot merely X-ray society’s weaknesses, its ills, its… — Ken Saro-Wiwa
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• A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book.… — Marguerite Young
• Evidently there are plenty of people in journalism who have neither got what they liked nor quite grown to like what they… — Claud Cockburn
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