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Page 2 of 2Wole Soyinka
July 13, 1934 -
Category: Dramatist
|  There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle. | | Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie. | | The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist. | | I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action. | | My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being. | | I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper. | | I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine. | | But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms. |
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