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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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a writer doesn’t only need the time when he’s actually writing – he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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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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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 shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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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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September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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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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Books dont need batteries
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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 a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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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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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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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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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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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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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 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.
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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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