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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn’t speak publicly.
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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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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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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