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Marlene van Niekerk Quotes

born 1954

Marlene Van Niekerk (born 10 November 1954) is a South African poet,writer, and academic. She is best known for her novels, the satirical tragicomedy Triomf (1994) and the Hertzog-winning Agaat (2004), which explore themes including the family, the change in power dynamics occasioned by the end of Apartheid, and inequalities of race, gender, and class.

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Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift.

A butterfly is like the soul of a person, it dries out in captivity.

A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him.

Nobody can be so beautiful from the outside and so hollow from inside. Not even in a third-rate novel.

After all the years, after everything that you'd had to endure, after everything that you'd undertaken, however good or bad, long after you'd given up all hope, the reward.

Marriage is holy and it's private.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Marlene van Niekerk (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.