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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.

Nadine Gordimer

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The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
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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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Analysemwould Canyon Cross Down Themselves Tightrope Writer
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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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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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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Amazing Best Bring Human Nature Power Word Worst Written
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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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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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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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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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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