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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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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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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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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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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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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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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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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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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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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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