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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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Wole Soyinka
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: July 13
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Sadness is twilight's kiss on earth.
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We do not ask the mountain's aid to crack a walnut.
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There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda.
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The idea of having to make constant reference to politics is anathema to my calling as a writer.
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Society itself is responsible for the degradation.
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Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
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