Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
NADINE GORDIMERWhen 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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Books dont need batteries
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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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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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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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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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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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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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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