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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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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 facts are always less than what really happened.
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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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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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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