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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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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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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.
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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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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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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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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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Air Always Burn Candle Current Frame Need One Sea Steadies
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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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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Act Creative Demand Evidence Exact Ideology Pure Society
A desert is a place without expectation.
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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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