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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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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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In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
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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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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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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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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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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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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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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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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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