Author: Damon Galgut

Quotes

Traveling is one of few zones of experience where you are not directly plugged into the world around you. You're not part of the society you're passing through.

Traveling is one of few zones of experience where you are not directly plugged into the world around you. You're not part of the society you're passing through.

- Damon Galgut

Any radical change or trauma always makes for interesting subject matter, but then all stories deal, to some extent, with the disjuncture between past and present.

Any radical change or trauma always makes for interesting subject matter, but then all stories deal, to some extent, with the disjuncture between past and present.

- Damon Galgut

India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.

India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.

- Damon Galgut

I first went to India because of my interest in yoga, hoping to go to the Iyengar Centre in Pune for a while. That didn't work out, but I ended up on a beach in Goa, writing.

I first went to India because of my interest in yoga, hoping to go to the Iyengar Centre in Pune for a while. That didn't work out, but I ended up on a beach in Goa, writing.

- Damon Galgut

Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.

Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.

- Damon Galgut

Perhaps cliche is nothing more than the weight of the past pinning down your mind. In this sense, imaginative freedom is a way of finding the future, though it isn't so easy to do.

Perhaps cliche is nothing more than the weight of the past pinning down your mind. In this sense, imaginative freedom is a way of finding the future, though it isn't so easy to do.

- Damon Galgut

For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.

For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.

- Damon Galgut

I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power.

I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power.

- Damon Galgut

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