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“Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact.”

Quote by Athol Fugard

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Athol Fugard is a renowned South African playwright known for his profound portrayals of life under apartheid in South Africa. His works often focus on social injustice and individual struggles, earning him acclaim from audiences and critics alike. more

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“Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family's asleep and I'm alone, I think about the next day's writing and plan a strategy for my assault on the blank page.”

Thinking Writing Lasts Night Next Plans Pages Strategy Blank Next Day Assault Night Time Blank Pages

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“Every boy needs a role model that he can be proud of and talk about to the other kids in the playground.”

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“I'm always in disguise in one form or another in my plays.”

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“How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I've always known that in my writing it is the dark troubled sea of which I know nothing, save its presence, that carried me. I've always felt that creating was a fearless and a timid, a despairing and hopeful, launching out into that unknown.”

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Book:Notebooks, 1960-1977

Source: Notebooks, 1960-1977

“My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't have really a function as an artist, as a useful artist, in that anymore.”

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Author:Athol Fugard

“My essential identity is that of a writer.”

Identity Essentials

Author:Athol Fugard

“I can't think of a single one of my plays that does not represent a coincidence between an external and an internal event. Something outside of me, outside even my own life, something I read in a newspaper or witness on the street, something I see or hear, fascinates me. I see it for its dramatic potential.”

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Author:Athol Fugard

“From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a jazz pianist and also a very good storyteller, an avid reader. He passed both those interests on to me.”

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“You cant legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth.”

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“I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual way we interacted with imaginary worlds was as characters: a bench was 'your' boat, leaves on a lawn were the fins of sharks out to get 'you.'”

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Book:Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London

Source: Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London