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Suggest Revision: [It] takes a jaundiced view of the much-vaunted glorious past of Africa. And I suppose since then I've been doing nothing but the danse macabre in this political jungle of ours.
  
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Suggest Revision: The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.
  
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Suggest Revision: The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.
  
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Suggest Revision: There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.
  
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Suggest Revision: There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.
  
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Suggest Revision: There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle.
  
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Suggest Revision: Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it.
  
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Suggest Revision: Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater.
  
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Suggest Revision: Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
  
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Suggest Revision: And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.
  
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