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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.

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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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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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can’t believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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Among Communist Country Especially Party People Popular Young
Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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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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Aside Dormer Easier Face Former Humanity Mask Master Put Recognise Slave Underneath
Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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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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Books dont need batteries
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Censorship Do Literature May Nothing Whatever
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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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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