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there is this idea of home being linked to love, but there are homes that are terrible, and then one has to find solace, sometimes in the most unexpected places

— Niq Mhlongo

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I’m very sceptical about book prizes and always have mixed feelings when they are announced

The second book is always a challenge because of the reception the first book received

I lament the fact that everything good that represents Joburg has shifted and that the attention of city planners is now focused on places like Rosebank and Sandton, leaving the city centre neglected

If you don’t develop eyes in the back of your head, you won’t survive in Joburg. It’s a university without a professor.

I think every writer is, one way or the other, a literary diplomat, whether travelling or not

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

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