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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.

Nadine Gordimer

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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.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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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 shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Autobiography Jealous Much never Privacy Shall That
I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Can Live Me Not Someone Without
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 caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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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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Banned Country Decide Fellow Government Nothing Television Want Write
A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Bring Child Fear Hate Hurt Understand
If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
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Bring Chosen Country Fundamental People Sense Well
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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