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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.

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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn’t speak publicly.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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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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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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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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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
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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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Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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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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