Yes! That's what all our talk about a decent world has been… - Athol Fugard

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Yes! That's what all our talk about a decent world has been... just so much bullshit.""We did say it was still only a dream.""And a bloody useless one at that. Life's a fuck-up and it's never going to change.

Athol Fugard

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Athol Fugard OIS HonFRSL (11 June 1932 – 8 March 2025) was a South African playwright, novelist, actor and director widely regarded as South Africa's greatest playwright. He is best known for his political and penetrating plays opposing the system of apartheid. Some of these have also been adapted for film.

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Alternative Names: Harold Athol Lannigan Fugard • Athol Harold Lanigan Fugard

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It's just that life felt the right size in there... not too big and not too small. Wasn't so hard to work up a bit of courage. It's got so bloody complicated since then.

"It doesn't have to be that way. There something called progress, you know. We don't exactly burn people at the stake anymore.

Little white boy ... and a black man old enough to be his father flying a kite.

Yes! That's what all our talk about a decent world has been... just so much bullshit.""We did say it was still only a dream.""And a bloody useless on… - Athol Fugard

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