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White people, who for a long time live alone with Natives, get into the habit of saying what they mean, because they have no reason or opportunity for dissimulation, and when they meet again their conversation keeps the Native tone.

— Karen Blixen Out of Africa (1937)

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I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.

Out of Africa (1937)

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

The best of my nature reveals itself in play, and play is sacred.

On Modern Marriage and Other Observations (1986)

The entire being of a woman is a secret which should be kept.

Last Tales (1957)

Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind.

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