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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.

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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September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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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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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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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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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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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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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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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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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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