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I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.
Wole Soyinka
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Wole Soyinka
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: July 13
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There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.
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Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.
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Writers - human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.
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Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there's a lot of work to be done.
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I think the epicentre of terrorism whether you call it cesspit or whatever you want to call it, shift, if you asked me a while ago, I would have said Somalia, Somalia has quietened a bit - and I think the epicentre right now is in Northern Nigeria.
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African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance.
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I believe that prizes are useful things for the disciplines, whether we are talking about chemistry or we're talking... It motivates, it, you know, inspires, it encourages and it brings, in the case of literature, it brings literature, the arts out of the ghetto.
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I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we'd never smelled the fumes of petroleum.
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Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist counter to the destructive power of his genius.
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The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.
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A human feast is an indifferent morsel to a god.
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One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.
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I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.
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Each time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
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Intolerance has become, I think, the reigning ideology of the world today, the intolerance versus intolerance and it's taken on lethal proportions.
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People say human nature is a very vague expression, people tend to say human nature is corruptible anyway and it comes from a theological point of view, goes back to the Garden of Eden, that there is always this corrupt gene waiting to be activated that we inherited from the very beginning. I don't believe in that theological excuse.
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I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.
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I think most writers would like a quiet space, complete isolation, in which they control their own time. Spaces of creativity in which there's very little interruption.
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Sadness is twilight's kiss on earth.
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