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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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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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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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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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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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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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Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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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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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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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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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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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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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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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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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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