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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.

Nadine Gordimer

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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more – absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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Absolutely Country Imagine Influence Thing Writer
A desert is a place without expectation.
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Desert Expectation Place Without
in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Matter Sex Writing
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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Act Creative Demand Evidence Exact Ideology Pure Society
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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Among Communist Country Especially Party People Popular Young
What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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Course Explain Include Life Mystery Personally Purpose Really Write
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
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
Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Certainly Close Feel Free Happier People
when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Androgynous Being Come Essential Faculty Writer
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Await Creativity Outside Responsibility
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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Aside Dormer Easier Face Former Humanity Mask Master Put Recognise Slave Underneath
A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Bring Child Fear Hate Hurt Understand
Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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Fade Nothing Quickly So Unchnage
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
The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
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Between Committed Eye Fade Fint Follow Gap Indifferent Mind Only Out Sagara Sand Trail

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