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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.

Nadine Gordimer

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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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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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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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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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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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Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
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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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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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