"Self-determination is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril."

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There's an imperative to make sure you distinguish fiction from the fact, because if the fact is doing the work, why did you do fiction? And once you raise the question of why - why do fiction? - then you have to answer it in your text as a kind of enactment of the answer.

— Fred D'Aguiar