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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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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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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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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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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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Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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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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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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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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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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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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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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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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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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