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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

Nadine Gordimer

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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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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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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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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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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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I never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
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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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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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