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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.

Nadine Gordimer

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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
NADINE GORDIMER

All Come Individual Privately Purse Vision Worthwhile Writing
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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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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It’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
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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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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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I never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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