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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.

Nadine Gordimer

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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
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
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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Area Life Made Make Perhaps Sense Small Writing
The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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Become Cage Eagle Form Imprisonment Isolation Metaphor Prison Ultimate Zoo
Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Certainly Close Feel Free Happier People
As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Existence Explore Myself Mystery Writer
Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Life Limit Music No Span
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
I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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Citizen Closely Country Much Other Own Part Relate Think Very World
Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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Appear Censorship Exile Exist Fragment Genius Index Joyce Longer Mode Place Work
Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Happen Horror Newspaper Other People
Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Alone End Everyone Move Self Toward
I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Afraid Been Fail Many never Thing
One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Come Confidence Measure Mood
Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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Interview Most People Identified Society
If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
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Always Better Country Feel First Second Stay While Will

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