Athol Fugard
South African · 1932–2025
South African playwright and actor whose intensely personal dramas exposed the intimate wounds of apartheid — the shame, complicity, and fragile bonds between individuals caught in a system designed to keep them apart.
Wikipedia ↗“My life as a writer and as a South African is so much tangled up that the one is inseparable from the other. I couldn't have written as I did about anything else.”
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“The only safe place for a man who can't dream is a cage. The world is too beautiful to stay awake in without dreams.”
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“The real issue is whether there is a way of living that doesn't involve mastering others. If there is, the theater must help us imagine it.”
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“I had a good day. A man is only as good as the company he keeps, and Sam and Willie were my best friends. That was what made it good. That feeling of being with two of the best human beings.”
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“Shame was in the room. It was in the air we breathed. I was ashamed of myself, ashamed of my mother, ashamed of my country.”
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“You know what's wrong with your world? You think there is a way things should be. There isn't.”
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