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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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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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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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Desert Expectation Place Without
A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Bring Child Fear Hate Hurt Understand
It’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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Aside Dormer Easier Face Former Humanity Mask Master Put Recognise Slave Underneath
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Await Creativity Outside Responsibility
The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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Being Between Fully Make Standing Tension Writer
In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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Being Certain Consciousness Era Own Select Sense Subject Writer
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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Away Break Change Continuity Country Live never Past Seem Thing Throw
As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Existence Explore Myself Mystery Writer
The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
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Between Committed Eye Fade Fint Follow Gap Indifferent Mind Only Out Sagara Sand Trail
Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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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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Become Certainty Country Help Known Nuisance Overseas South Value Writer

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