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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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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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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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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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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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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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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.
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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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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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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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