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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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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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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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Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? 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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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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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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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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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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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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