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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 creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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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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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Censorship Do Literature May Nothing Whatever
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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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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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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