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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.

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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Communists are the last optimists.
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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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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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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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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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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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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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