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It’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.

Nadine Gordimer

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September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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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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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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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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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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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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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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