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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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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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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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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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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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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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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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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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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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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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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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