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Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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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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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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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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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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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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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
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I never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
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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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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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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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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? 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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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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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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