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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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About the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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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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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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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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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