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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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About the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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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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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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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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it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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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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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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