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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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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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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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September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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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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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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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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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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