Creative Quotations from Ryszard Kapuscinski ( -1932)

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Ryszard Kapuscinski
( -1932) born on

Polish reporter, writer. His best-known book is a reportage-novel of the decline of Haile Selassie's anachronistic regime in Ethiopia.

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In the tropics the white feels weakened, or downright weak, whence comes the heightened tendency to outbursts of aggression. People who are polite, modest or even humble in Europe fall easily into a rage here, get into fights, destroy other people. . .

When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.

Be careful: they have arms, and no alternatives.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	The Soccer War, "The Plan of the Never-Written Book," sct. 32 (1990).
R:	"A Warsaw Diary," in Granta, no. 15 (Cambridge, England; 1985).
A:	"A Warsaw Diary," in Granta, no. 15 (Cambridge, England, 1985).
N:	A Warsaw Diary, in Granta, no. 15 (Cambridge, England, 1985).
K:	"A Warsaw Diary," in Granta, no. 15 (Cambridge, England, 1985).