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Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.

Nadine Gordimer

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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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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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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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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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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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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
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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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