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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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a writer doesn’t only need the time when he’s actually writing – he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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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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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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