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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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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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Back Begin Child Enter Fact Front Happen Realise Rebirth Simply Thought White
In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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Horror Known Miracle One Ought Saint Suffer
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
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
Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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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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Bring Chosen Country Fundamental People Sense Well
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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Certain Circumstance Go Individual Object Out Turn Various Vital
I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Afraid Been Fail Many never Thing
Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Alone End Everyone Move Self Toward
it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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Factual Fiction Nothing Say Truthful Write
A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Human Being Living Neutral Remain Truly
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
Communists are the last optimists.
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Communist Lat Optimist
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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