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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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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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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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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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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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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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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I’m a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can’t see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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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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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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