Occupation: Novelist Birth: May 13, 1940 Death: January 18, 1989
Tyranny sets up its own echo-chamber..
'I will go to France, to Yugoslavia, to China, and continue my profession.' 'As sanitary engineer?' 'No, Monsieur. As adventurer. I will see all the ….
I slept in black tents, blue tents, skin tents, yurts of felt and windbreaks of thorns. One night, caught in a sandstorm in the Western Sahara, I und….
Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians-- with their concept of an afterlife journey through the Field of Reeds-- project on to….
I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered..
Music… is a memory bank for finding one’s way about the world..
The song and the land are one..
As you go along, you literally collect places. I'm fed up with going to places; I shan't go to anymore..
And the formation of man is the most pressing problem facing humanity..
It's an old sailor's idea that every ship has a rope with one end made fast to her bows and the other held by the loved ones at home..
The word story is intended to alert the reader to the fact that, however closely the narrative may fit the facts, the fictional process has been at w….
Richard Lee calculated that a Bushman child will be carried a distance of 4,900 miles before he begins to walk on his own. Since, during this rhythmi….
When people start talking of man's inhumanity to man it means they haven't actually walked far enough..