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“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
― Marguerite Duras

“Since I’ve written quite a number of songs for my plays, I would like to be nominated for a Grammy,”
― Wole Soyinka

“You have to live your life if you’re going to do original work. Your work will come out of an authentic life ...”
― Louise Glück

“once you make yourself a freak and special any bastard starts to use you. That's half of the fierce fight in Africa'

— Elizabeth”
― Bessie Head, A Question of Power

“If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works, with all the misconceptions, the omissions, the failures that any finished work of art implies.”
― John Dos Passos