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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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Communist Lat Optimist
The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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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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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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After Change Measure Much Passage Thing Time
Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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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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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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Fade Nothing Quickly So Unchnage
In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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