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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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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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Afraid Already Answerable Best Dead One Perhaps Reaction View Way Write
Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Alone Hear Keenness One Review
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Await Creativity Outside Responsibility
You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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Basis Change Compassion Got Harder Regime Something
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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Aside Dormer Easier Face Former Humanity Mask Master Put Recognise Slave Underneath
Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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Attitude Bush Grasland Gret Indigenous Openness Primacy Serenity Silver Tree Word Yellow
It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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Horror Known Miracle One Ought Saint Suffer
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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Bring Chosen Country Fundamental People Sense Well
Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Do Know Next Sentiment Those To What
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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Banned Country Decide Fellow Government Nothing Television Want Write
One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Come Confidence Measure Mood
Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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Country Fall Learn Life Sent Surface Through
Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Alone End Everyone Move Self Toward
There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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Beauty Filling Moral No
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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Area Life Made Make Perhaps Sense Small Writing
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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Convince Innocence Power Sid Something Womb

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