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"My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection."
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"A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain."
"I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them."
"I don't travel to learn about the world. I travel for the joy of traveling."
"A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge."
"The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible."
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"The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise."
"People were really interested in what was going on because of the international context of the Cold War."
"I remember in 1978 meeting two Ugandan captains in the hotel talking Russian. They had been educated in Moscow and since they came from different Ugandan peoples, it was the only way they could understand one another."
"Amin hid nothing. Everybody knew everything. Yet the American Senate only introduced a resolution breaking off trade with Amin three months before his overthrow."
"This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession."
"Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world."
"I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months."
"There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act."
"The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed."
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