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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
— Damon Galgut
He had it now, he thought. What he had been searching for till now: the heart of it, the central, engendering event.
— Damon Galgut
The only defence against raw, naked feeling was reason. Understanding made sadness easier to bear.
— Damon Galgut
To be honest and to be fair were not always the same thing.
— Damon Galgut
India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
— Damon Galgut
Why did people believe it was only the flesh that binds?
— Damon Galgut
While apartheid was in operation, the set-up was a gift for writers if you were looking for a big theme.
— Damon Galgut
There aren't a lot of 'Aha!' moments in writing.
— Damon Galgut
South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.
— Damon Galgut
It's been unsettling to discover that every form of narrative, even one that purports to tell the truth, is a kind of lying.
— Damon Galgut
Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
— Damon Galgut
The Indians were inside their bodies, he decided, in a way that the British were not. His own flesh impeded his spirit.
— Damon Galgut
All have their foolishness, and this is mine.
— Damon Galgut
Goldie was a believer in the imperial project, which is to say, in the civilising power of social progress.
— Damon Galgut
What did love mean if it was doled out so carelessly, with no thought of consequence?
— Damon Galgut
Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
— Damon Galgut
I'm not designed to interact with society.
— Damon Galgut
I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.
— Damon Galgut
I go for long walks in Newlands Forest in Cape Town, and I go to the Turkish baths on Sunday mornings.
— Damon Galgut
Generally, writers have very uninteresting lives.
— Damon Galgut
Stationery gets me excited because it has an individual character, unlike computers, which may be convenient but are generic and bland.
— Damon Galgut
Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.
— Damon Galgut
Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.
— Damon Galgut
Of what earthly use were novels? How did they help anybody?
— Damon Galgut
Other people might have to confess their sins, but he, Morgan, could only confess their absence.
— Damon Galgut
Past a certain point, maybe, a person's character defines itself and stays fixed in your mind.
— Damon Galgut
It is always an attractive moment when curiosity takes hold.
— Damon Galgut
There are many monsters, oh, many!
— Damon Galgut
I like to believe that if you pay close attention to the sentences as they unfold, they will draw you in rather than pushing you away.
— Damon Galgut
My dear, he talked of peering into catamites' anuses, if you can conceive of anything more wonderful.
— Damon Galgut
I blame it on the heat. And Morgan had gone to India, and the heat had not undone him. He had remained respectable.
— Damon Galgut
