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“ You know history better than I do, you've been teaching all your life. Without real opposition you get dictators down the line. Idi, Amin, Mugabe. No democracy without opposition. ”

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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.

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The creative act is not pure.

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They say (she had read somewhere) that no one ever disappears, up in the atmosphere, stratosphere, whatever you call space--atoms infinitely minute, beyond conception of existence, are up there forever, from the whole world, from all time.

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