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

Nadine Gordimer

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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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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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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If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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Books dont need batteries
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Writing is making sense of life.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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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 Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can’t believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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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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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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