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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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I never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
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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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A desert is a place without expectation.
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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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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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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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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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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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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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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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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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