Breyten Breytenbach

History is a succession of things that ought never to have happened, and the writing act is a kind of revenge against this.

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Even ivory towers need central heating.

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Even ivory towers need central heating.

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History is a succession of things that ought never to have happened, and the writing act is a kind of revenge against this.

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The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.

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Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.

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Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness.

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I came, I saw, I was confused.

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You ride astride the imaginary in order to hunt down the real.

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Quotes by Breyten Breytenbach