Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
NADINE GORDIMERI couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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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 child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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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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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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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 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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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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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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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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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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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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