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"It seemed to me there was no sense in life. Things happened and no one seemed to know why."
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Peter AbrahamsIt was difficult for the Africans most of whom had taken European educ — Peter Abrahams
"It was difficult for the Africans most of whom had taken European education and embraced Christian religion, to revert to the rapidly dying, outdated traditions and customs of their forefathers"
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Peter Henry Abrahams Deras, commonly known as Peter Abrahams, was a South African-born novelist, journalist and political commentator who in 1956 settled in Jamaica, where he lived for the rest of his life. His death at the age of 97 is considered to have been murder.
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"He did not want to go there for fear he should meet Eliza. And she was like a devil in his blood. He could not forget her."
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"I pushed my nose and lip...I was inside the raindrop away from the misery of the cold damp room. I was in a place of warmth and sunshine, inside my raindrop world."
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"Really these streets and trees, almost the clean air I breathed here were: RESERVED FOR EUROPEANS ONLY. I was the intruder. And like the intruder, I walked carefully lest I be discovered. I longed for what the white folk had. I envied them their superior European lot"
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"Oh––isn’t it lovely? That’s the one I want when we are rich!’ Her eyes were bright, her lips parted"
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"All the years of his life had been spent walking through the land; from east to west, then back; from north to south, then back."
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