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Peter Abrahams
South African
Novelist
About the author
Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps.
Peter Abrahams,
South African
Novelist
#Magic
#Dream
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.
Peter Abrahams,
South African
Novelist
#People
#Man
#Culture
#History
#Values
#Illusion
Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man.
Peter Abrahams,
South African
Novelist
#Man
#Mother
#Kings
With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.
Peter Abrahams,
South African
Novelist
#World
#Dreams
#Books
#Self
#Consciousness
#Poetry
#Shakespeare
To get where you want to go you can't only do what you like.
Peter Abrahams,
South African
Novelist
#Want