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1. "Those are big collisions, Hally. They make for a lot of bruises. People get hurt in all that bumping, and we're sick and tired of it now. It's been going on for too long. Are we never going to get it right?...Learn to dance life like champions instead of always being just a bunch of beginners at it?" ~ Athol Fugard
2. "Life is just a plain bloody mess, that's all. And people are fools." ~ Athol Fugard
3. "How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I've always known that in my writing it is the dark troubled sea of which I know nothing, save its presence, that carried me. I've always felt that creating was a fearless and a timid, a despairing and hopeful, launching out into that unknown." ~ Athol Fugard
4. "I think all of my writing life led up to the writing of 'The Train Driver' because it deals with my own inherited blindness and guilt and all of what being a white South African in South Africa during those apartheid years meant." ~ Athol Fugard
5. "I think the aloe is one of South Africa's most powerful, beautiful and celebratory symbols. It survives out there in the wild when everything else is dried." ~ Athol Fugard
6. "In South Africa, success never presented the problems that it presents in New York. In New York, if you happen to be the flavor of the month, a lot of nonsense comes with it into your life." ~ Athol Fugard
7. "'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There's a thread running down the Fugard line of alcoholism. Thankfully I haven't passed it on to my child, a wonderful daughter who's stone-cold sober. But I had the tendency from my father, just as he had had it from his father." ~ Athol Fugard
8. "My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't really have a function as a useful artist in that anymore." ~ Athol Fugard
9. "Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family's asleep and I'm alone, I think about the next day's writing and plan a strategy for my assault on the blank page." ~ Athol Fugard
10. "Nobody can take what I love away from me. I would like to believe that love is the only energy I've ever used as a writer. I've never written out of anger, although anger has informed love." ~ Athol Fugard
11. "Be careful, Hally.""Of what? The truth? I seem to be the only one around here who is prepared to face it." ~ Athol Fugard
12. "It's just that life felt the right size in there... not too big and not too small. Wasn't so hard to work up a bit of courage. It's got so bloody complicated since then." ~ Athol Fugard
13. "Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact." ~ Athol Fugard
14. "Every boy needs a role model that he can be proud of and talk about to the other kids in the playground." ~ Athol Fugard
15. "I'm always in disguise in one form or another in my plays." ~ Athol Fugard
16. "I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time." ~ Athol Fugard
17. "I've had one experience of writer's block in my life, and it was living hell. It was a terror for me." ~ Athol Fugard
18. "My essential identity is that of a writer." ~ Athol Fugard
19. "Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way." ~ Athol Fugard
20. "For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's a miracle. We're starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul." ~ Athol Fugard
21. "I can't think of a single one of my plays that does not represent a coincidence between an external and an internal event. Something outside of me, outside even my own life, something I read in a newspaper or witness on the street, something I see or hear, fascinates me. I see it for its dramatic potential." ~ Athol Fugard
22. "A very close friend of mine keeps reminding me that since about the age of 50, I've been saying, 'I'm finished. I haven't got another one in me.' But somehow you do." ~ Athol Fugard
23. "All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you've to take the gloves off and get out, and reinvent yourself." ~ Athol Fugard
24. "For most of my writing life, I've refused to allow myself to believe that writing was a significant form of action. I always felt very uneasy about the fact that all I did was write in a situation as desperate as apartheid South Africa. Whether I was correct or not is a different issue." ~ Athol Fugard
25. "From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a jazz pianist and also a very good storyteller, an avid reader. He passed both those interests on to me." ~ Athol Fugard
26. "Aman cant spend his life with only one thought" ~ Athol Fugard

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