One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
NADINE GORDIMERThe 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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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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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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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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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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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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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
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