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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.

Nadine Gordimer

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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can’t believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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