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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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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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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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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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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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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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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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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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