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In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.

Nadine Gordimer

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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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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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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.
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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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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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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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A desert is a place without expectation.
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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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