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Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"A blank cheque kills creativity."

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Amber Hurdle

"No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being a novelist."

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Amber Hurdle

"But the detail of the poem shows power akin to genius, and reveals to us that much neglected law of literary history -- that potential genius can never become actual unless it finds or makes the Form which it requires."

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Amber Hurdle

"And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right."

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Amber Hurdle

"We are all artists, painting the world with our thoughts while coloring the universe with our deeds."

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Amber Hurdle

"If you ever desire to give birth to anything at all, then you cannot do without solitude."

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"Like most arts, the link between the mind and the pen can chain you like an enslaved workaholic. Even on an intended vacation you suddenly have this killer urge to record whatever the vacation may teach."

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Amber Hurdle

"Her words dance on the page."

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"You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know everything about it. You can't."

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"My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward."

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"Exactly. When is comes to anything halfway important, you just don't get it. It's amazing to me that you can put a piece of fiction together''Yeah, well, that's a whole different thing.'(from Honey Pie)"

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"There is nothing inherently painful about being cheated on."

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Most parents are not really 'supportive' because they want their kid(s) to succeed; they 'support' their kid(s) as an attempt to avoid appearing to have bred a failure, or, failures - in the eyes of their peers and/or neighbours."

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Retro is a symptom of a generation that is too lazy to innovate."

Culture

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"A tie is what you get after ice cubes have wrestled with hot water."

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"You can only be twice someone's age once."

Age

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"AIDS would have claimed fewer lives if we had publicly recommended what I wish to call 'The Presumption of Sickness,' i.e., the principle that whomever we are about to sleep with is HIV-positive until proven HIV-negative."

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"When a man's girlfriend's parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they're not really concerned about him, they're concerned about their daughter's tummy."

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date."

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Thanks to the internet, you can provoke thoughts of those in mansions, from the uncomfortableness of your shack."

Technology

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