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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.

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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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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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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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I never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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