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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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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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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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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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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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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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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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