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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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Books dont need batteries
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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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