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Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living."

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"History develops, art stands still."

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"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

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"Music heals all forms of misery."

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"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

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"Only sick music makes money today."

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"Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career."

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"People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That's what I do."

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"Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them."

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"Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life."

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"Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible."
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"Unbeknown to us, some of the people who we hope are missing us wherever they are do miss us; some miss someone else; and some are dead."
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"You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you."
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"Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it."
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"I do not have a problem with people killing themselves, as long as they took at least a hundred years to think about what they are about to do."
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"Some of the people we feel sorry for feel sorry for us for thinking that they are the ones who should be felt sorry for."
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