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In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.
Nelson MandelaAbout author
- Author's profession: Statesman
- Nationality: south african
- Born: July 18, 1918
- Died: December 5, 2013
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Empty-page staring again tonight. It's maddening. I suppose people who don't write (like the Connollies) imagine anything that can be though can be expressed. Well, I don't know. I can't do it. It's this sort of thing that makes me belittle the whole business: what's the good of a 'talent' if you can't do it when you want to? What should we think of a woodcarver who couldn't woodcarver? or a pianist who couldn't play the piano? Bah, likewise grrr.
Philip Larkin