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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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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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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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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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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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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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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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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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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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Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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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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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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