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'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There's a thread running down the Fugard line of alcoholism. Thankfully I haven't passed it on to my child, a wonderful daughter who's stone-cold sober. But I had the tendency from my father, just as he had had it from his father.

Athol Fugard

Athol Fugard

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Be careful, Hally."

"Of what? The truth? I seem to be the only one around here who is prepared to face it.
— Athol Fugard
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