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.
NADINE GORDIMERWhen 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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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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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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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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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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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
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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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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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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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