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Wole Soyinka

"I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper."

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Donna Grant

"It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind."

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Donna Grant

"The word of my lord is the sword for world."

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Donna Grant

"My word fly up my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

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Donna Grant

"The world's most lethal venom is not found on the tongues of serpents, but on the tongues of a disgruntled wife."

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Donna Grant

"And it should be the law: If you use the word "paradigm" without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions."

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Donna Grant

"The best contraceptive is the word no - repeated frequently."

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Donna Grant

"Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically."

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Donna Grant

"My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness."

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Donna Grant

"I was a brat. It was crazy, I was very picky. In other words, I didn't take advantage of what was happening."

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Donna Grant

"Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!"

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Wole Soyinka
"Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for."

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Wole Soyinka
"There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind."

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Wole Soyinka
"Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it."

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Wole Soyinka
"But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing."

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Wole Soyinka
"I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood."

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Wole Soyinka
"Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie."

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Wole Soyinka
"I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper."

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Wole Soyinka
"Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there's a lot of work to be done."

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Wole Soyinka
"Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom."

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Wole Soyinka
"The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist."

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