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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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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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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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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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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Do Know Next Sentiment Those To What
Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Disaster Private Way Love
Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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Have Ide never Oneself Sincerity
A desert is a place without expectation.
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it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Can Live Me Not Someone Without
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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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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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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