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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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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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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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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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A desert is a place without expectation.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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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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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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About the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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