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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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I never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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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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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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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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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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Books dont need batteries
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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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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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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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