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“A writer is part of society; a writer notices what is going on around him, sees the poverty every day.”

— Dambudzo Marechera

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“There must always be a healthy tension between a writer and his nation.”

“As long as he is serious, the writer must be free to criticise or write about anything in society.”

“When culture is emphasised in such a nationalistic way that can lead to fascism.

“There is no sense of home any more, no feeling of being at one with any specific portion of the earth.”

“I am against everything, against war and those against war, against whatever diminishes the individual’s blind impulse.”

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

Solomon

If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.

Leo Tolstoy

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

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