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a writer doesn’t only need the time when he’s actually writing – he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.

Nadine Gordimer

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The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
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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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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 creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts 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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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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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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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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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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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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