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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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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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Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more – absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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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.
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
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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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If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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