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Revision:Quotes from La Chat 1990 Interview With Brink

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"the Immorality Act... made any kind of a love relationship between whites and blacks impossible."

"I wanted to write a novel with a simple outline, as clear as the backbone of a fish"

"the whole experience which places a burden of responsibility on the actors in that situation not to resort to an imaginary solution to their problems but to enter the future really believing that something worthwhile, something significant, something sensible, can come out of it."

"one is not always conscious of exactly everything one writes"

"one [Adam and Elizabeth in this case] has a kind of social consciousness and responsibility, so they have to return to human society"

"she possibly - it isn't certain - betrays him because she cannot do otherwise in that society;"

"to them [Adam and Elizabeth] it [nature] is a kind of mother which shelters them, which feeds them, which prepares them for the future."

"a journey through a landscape of the mind"

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