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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.

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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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
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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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Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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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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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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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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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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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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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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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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