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All of my life had been spent...

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 spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you've to take the gloves off and get out and reinvent yourself.

Athol Fugard 32 quotes

Love is the only energy I’ve ...

Love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.

Athol Fugard 32 quotes

There is a desperate tendency...

There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just leave artists alone. If you are a true artist, you will have a very finely tuned moral mechanism.

Athol Fugard 32 quotes

To know nothing about yoursel...

To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of his life.

Athol Fugard 32 quotes

My life had been defined by t...

My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't have really a function as an artist, as a useful artist, in that anymore.

Athol Fugard 32 quotes

As fascinated as I was by wor...

As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken word. And that is the world of theatre.

Athol Fugard 32 quotes

With so many young playwright...

With so many young playwrights, the true craft of writing for living voices is not what it used to be. They write for attention spans of 10 minutes between adverts.

Athol Fugard 32 quotes

Anybody who thinks there's no...

Anybody who thinks there's nothing wrong with this world needs to have his head examined. Just when things are going all right, without fail someone or something will come along and spoil everything. Somebody should write that down as a fundamental law of the Universe. The principle of perpetual disappointment. If there is a God who created this world, he should scrap it and try again.

Athol Fugard 32 quotes

You cant legislate into exist...

You cant legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth.

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What I quickly discovered is ...

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 really changed. Who is in power now is different to who was in power then, but the squatter camps grow like cancer, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.

Athol Fugard 32 quotes

A very close friend of mine k...

A very close friend of mine keeps reminding me that since about the age of 50, I've been saying, 'I'm finished. I haven't got another one in me.' But somehow you do.

Athol Fugard 32 quotes

Theater will never, and never...

Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.

Athol Fugard 32 quotes

People come to the Fountain T...

People come to the Fountain Theatre because they've got hearts that are working and they've got heads that are working. They use the Fountain Theatre because it puts them in touch with the world that they're living in.

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The act of witnessing is impo...

The act of witnessing is important to me; somebody's got to tell the truth, you know what I mean?

Athol Fugard 32 quotes

I think the aloe is one of So...

I think the aloe is one of South Africa's most powerful, beautiful and celebratory symbols. It survives out there in the wild when everything else is dried.

Athol Fugard 32 quotes

Theater will never, and never ...

Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.

Athol Fugard 32 quotes

Anybody who thinks there's not...

Anybody who thinks there's nothing wrong with this world needs to have his head examined. Just when things are going all right, without fail someone or something will come along and spoil everything. Somebody should write that down as a fundamental law of the Universe. The principle of perpetual disappointment. If there is a God who created this world, he should scrap it and try again.

Athol Fugard 32 quotes

I've always sensed for myself ...

I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.

Athol Fugard 32 quotes

The things that converge in th...

The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery.

Athol Fugard 32 quotes

A very close friend of mine ke...

A very close friend of mine keeps reminding me that since about the age of 50, I've been saying, 'I'm finished. I haven't got another one in me.' But somehow you do.

Athol Fugard 32 quotes

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