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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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I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn’t speak publicly.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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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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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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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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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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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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Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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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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Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
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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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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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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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