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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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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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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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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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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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Animal Bless Curse Faculty Higher Human Only Regard Self Torture Want Why
I’m a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can’t see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Human Being Living Neutral Remain Truly
Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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Factual Fiction Nothing Say Truthful Write
Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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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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