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Christopher Hope Quotes

born 1944 South Africa

Christopher Hope, FRSL (born 26 February 1944) is a South African novelist and poet who is known for his controversial works dealing with racism and politics in South Africa. His son is violinist Daniel Hope.

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One should celebrate irreverence, and pay no respect to power.

I write not to change the world but to undermine it.

Everything I’ve written has been an answer to that.

I prefer the liberation and release of laughter to the boring repetition of tragedy and melodrama.

I’ve spent my entire life looking for something like home.

I go back again and again, to try to find out where I come from.

My mother's generation felt they belonged, and that they owned whatever they could see.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Christopher Hope (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.