“It came quite early in my life. I realised one day what is necessary is that you leave the destructive negative emotions…outside the door and close the door. The only emotion I sit with when I write is love.”—South African playwright Athol Fugard (1932-2025) quoted by Franklin Nelson, “Obituary: Chronicler of South Africa’s Painful Era of Apartheid,” The Financial Times, Mar. 15-16, 2025
Showing posts with label Negativity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Negativity. Show all posts
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Saturday, April 12, 2008
Quote of the Day (Isaac Bashevis Singer, on Negativity)
“If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.”—Polish-American fiction writer Nobel Literature Prize laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902-1991), appearing on the “Dick Cavett Show,” PBS, July 17, 1978
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