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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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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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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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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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Books dont need batteries
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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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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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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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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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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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A desert is a place without expectation.
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