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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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A desert is a place without expectation.
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Desert Expectation Place Without
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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Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
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Back Begin Child Enter Fact Front Happen Realise Rebirth Simply Thought White
When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Disaster Private Way Love
I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Afraid Been Fail Many never Thing
The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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Fade Nothing Quickly So Unchnage
People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Another Gift Give One People Thing Wrap
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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But Explore Fiction Life Live Possibility Present Single Undreamt Way
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.
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Actual Got Need Out She Thing Think Time Work Writer Writing
There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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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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It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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