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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.

Nadine Gordimer

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The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
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Abstraction Always Another Country Desirable Embarrassing Exist God Pamphlet Thank Tourist
Communists are the last optimists.
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Communist Lat Optimist
It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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Horror Known Miracle One Ought Saint Suffer
I never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
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Currently Need never No Obligation Own Private Talk Work Write
in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Matter Sex Writing
Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Certainly Close Feel Free Happier People
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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Convince Innocence Power Sid Something Womb
There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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Beauty Filling Moral No
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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Become Certainty Country Help Known Nuisance Overseas South Value Writer
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
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
A desert is a place without expectation.
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Desert Expectation Place Without
Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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Country Fall Learn Life Sent Surface Through
I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Can Live Me Not Someone Without
Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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All Attempt Celebration Defeat Define Degrade Destroy Existence Life Representing Spite
You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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Basis Change Compassion Got Harder Regime Something

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