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A desert is a place without expectation.

Nadine Gordimer

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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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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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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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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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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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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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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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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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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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