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1 " It felt odd and poetic and encouraging coming back after so many years, a shape imposing itself on life again after chaos. "
― Graham Greene , In Search of a Character: two African Journals
2 " Memories are a form of simile: when we say something is 'like' we are remembering. "
3 " The first day one watches to see whether a routine will emerge: it is a routine that makes home. "
4 " The beginning of a book holds more apprehensions for the novelist than the ending. After living with a book for a year or two, he has come to terms with his unconsciousness — the end will be imposed. But if a book is started in the wrong way, it may never be finished. "
5 " ...to an author there is a certain romance when stray copies of his work turn up in far, poor or abandoned places of the world. "
6 " Africa will always be the Africa of the Victorian atlas, the blank unexplored continent the shape of the human heart. "
