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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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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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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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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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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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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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Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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