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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.

Nadine Gordimer

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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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Life Make Sense Writing
I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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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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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Autobiography Jealous Much never Privacy Shall That
People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Another Gift Give One People Thing Wrap
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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Aside Dormer Easier Face Former Humanity Mask Master Put Recognise Slave Underneath
Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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Always Discovery Oyage Writing
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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Close Day Disappear Frightening Happiness Madness One Quite Solitude Touch Writing
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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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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Country Fall Learn Life Sent Surface Through
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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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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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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