People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
NADINE GORDIMERResponsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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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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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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It’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can’t believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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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.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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