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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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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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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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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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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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About the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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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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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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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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