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You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

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You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your badness.

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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe

Peter Abrahams

Peter Abrahams
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Born: March 3, 1919
Died: January 18, 2017 (aged 97)
Bio: Peter Henry Abrahams Deras, commonly known as Peter Abrahams, was a South African novelist, journalist and political commentator.

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