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Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel."

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Donna Grant

"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel."

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Donna Grant

"I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr."

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Donna Grant

"Which is my favourite author??You have mistake it must be authors I have a lot of favourite authors, which is my book, opps again a mistake, it must be books..."

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Donna Grant

"Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. They belong not to one system, one nation only, but to the universe. And just because they are so very far away, it is usually many years before their light is visible to the inhabitants of this earth."

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Donna Grant

"Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. - It is not fair. - He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. - I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it - but fear I must."

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Donna Grant

"This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant."

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Donna Grant

"I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'"

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Donna Grant

"It is neither poor handling nor the weather that turns the pages of a book a fine sepia. It is the reader's imagination."

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Donna Grant

"I do not steal imagination. I use it and replace it by making people read."

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Donna Grant

"In our Impulsive nature to write and repulsive nature to read that has led to a decline in literary genius in our times!"

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass."

Society

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today."

Mortality

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

Time

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"A satirist that criticizes religion is seen as a satanist."

Religion

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

Work

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."

Work

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"In some cases, it is the woman's stomach-not her heart-that has left her man for another."

Relationship

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations."

Religion

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"Tomorrow is like 'there.' Once you get 'there,' it is called 'here.' So, technically, life is a set of Todays."

Philosophy

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents."

Writing

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