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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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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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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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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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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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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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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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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Do Know Next Sentiment Those To What
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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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 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 cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Can Live Me Not Someone Without
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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Bring Chosen Country Fundamental People Sense Well
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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The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can’t believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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Among Communist Country Especially Party People Popular Young
A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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