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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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I’m a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can’t see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Bring Child Fear Hate Hurt Understand
September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Autobiography Jealous Much never Privacy Shall That
Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
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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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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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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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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? 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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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