Insupportable Quotes

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“An arrogant man whose arrogance we see from his own behaviour is more tolerable than a humble man whose humility we hear of from his own mouth.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Qu'il est bon pourtant de faire partie de la meute ! Faire partie de ceux qui portent aux nues, ou vouent aux gémonies. Comment ne pas voir dans le café des Poètes de Thrace ma ville de Saint-Gilles ? Thrace ne ressemble en rien aux communes réunionnaises faites de tôle et de flamboyants, au carrefour des virages menant aux cirques, ou des sentiers vers la plage. Mon Thrace à moi, ou ma Thrace, c'est bine l'île de La Réunion, et Saint-Gilles en est le café des Poètes. Saint-Gilles, c'est l'Avant-Garde de Cocteau, sa jeunesse dorée, celle qu'on exhibe volontiers. Corps offerts sur la plage comme en terrasse. La profondeur de l'invisible, nous la laissons à l'océan. On reconnaît le jeune Saint-Gillois à ses épaules carrées de surfeur, mèches blondes de préférence, la Saint-Gilloise à ses longues jambes bronzées, sa chevelure brune.”
Raozy Pellerin, L'Admission