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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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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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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Existence Explore Myself Mystery Writer
Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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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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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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Aside Dormer Easier Face Former Humanity Mask Master Put Recognise Slave Underneath
People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Another Gift Give One People Thing Wrap
There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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Analysemwould Canyon Cross Down Themselves Tightrope Writer
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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Horror Known Miracle One Ought Saint Suffer
Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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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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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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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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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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Country Fall Learn Life Sent Surface Through
If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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