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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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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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Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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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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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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I’m a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can’t see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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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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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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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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