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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.

Nadine Gordimer

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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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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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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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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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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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