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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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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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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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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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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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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.
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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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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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I’m a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can’t see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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