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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 33 quotes by Athol Fugard Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard (born 11 June 1932) is a South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director who writes in English. He is best known for his political plays opposing the South African system of apartheid and for the 2005 Academy Award-winning film of his novel Tsotsi, directed by Gavin Hood. Fugard is an adjunct professor of playwriting, acting and directing in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of California,... Read full biography of Athol Fugard → 1 2 3 Ctrl → 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... → 0 You can't legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between... → 0 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... → 0 What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn't... → 0 '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... → 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 Every boy needs a role model that he can be proud of and talk about to the other kids in the playground. 0 I'm always in disguise in one form or another in my plays. 0 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... → 0 Obviously when it comes to the question of telling stories about other people's lives in a situation as political as South Africa, you get to be... → 0 The act of witnessing is important to me; somebody's got to tell the truth, you know what I mean? 0 Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact. 0 1 2 3 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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