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There is no economic solution to the ills of the world until the arts of originality […] open the partialities and biases of tradition in ways that address the very core of our pre-possessions.

— Wilson Harris The Unfinished Genesis of the Imagination (1999)

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The solid morning mist began to disintegrate and dark shoulders of rock appeared in the water giving the illusion of swimmers, reaching from bank to bank, dispersing from themselves wreaths of snakes with imperceptible strokes.

Heartland (1964)

The arts have to be pursued irrespective of what people think.

Interview with Wilson Harris (2010)

(Breaking) ritual habit, ritual normality that seals our eyes and ears…you can advance, see things you never saw before, move out of boundaries that have been a prison.

They're hardly given to conventional writers, and a writer like myself is hardly given a knighthood.

Interview with Wilson Harris (2010)

“Quantum” brings a hand in fiction that challenges all conventional fixtures of control within the psyche of art.

Interview with Wilson Harris (2003)

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