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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.

Nadine Gordimer

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Communists are the last optimists.
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Communist Lat Optimist
The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can’t believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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Among Communist Country Especially Party People Popular Young
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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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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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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Change Function Life Light Make Mystery Sense Such Time Writer
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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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Afraid Been Fail Many never Thing
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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A desert is a place without expectation.
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Desert Expectation Place Without
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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Area Life Made Make Perhaps Sense Small Writing
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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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Disaster Private Way Love
Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Always Fact Happen Less Really What

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