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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.

Nadine Gordimer

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Writing is making sense of life.
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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.
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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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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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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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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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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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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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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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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