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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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a writer doesn’t only need the time when he’s actually writing – he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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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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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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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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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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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It’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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