“Literary scholars end up being some kind of storyteller, too.”
Writing and Being (1991)
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South african Nobel-winning writer 1923–2014Related quotes
Resil B. Mojares in Brains of the Nation: Pedro Paterno, T. H. Pado de Tavera, Isabelo de los Reyes. 2006. p. 477.
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“The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.”
"The Storyteller" (1936)
“Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.”
At age 66, on being passed over for an award (Pulitzer Prize for music) in 1965, as quoted in The Christian Science Monitor (24 December 1986).
“from the beginning, through the
middle years and up to the
end:
too bad, too bad, too bad.”
Source: Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way
The L Word Finale Special (8 March 2009) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiG70AuomH0&feature=fvwrel.
Man's Rise to Civilization (1968)
Context: The debate as to where "magic" ends and "religion" begins is an old one, and it appeared to have been settled some decades ago when scholars concluded that no discernible boundary was to be found. As a result, the two were often lumped together in the adjective "magico-religious"...
