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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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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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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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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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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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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Answer Other Recognize Yourself
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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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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