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

Nadine Gordimer

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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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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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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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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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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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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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