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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 creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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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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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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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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It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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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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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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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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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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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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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Books dont need batteries
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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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a writer doesn’t only need the time when he’s actually writing – he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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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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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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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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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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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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