I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
NADINE GORDIMERHumans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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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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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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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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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.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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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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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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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 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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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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