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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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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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I never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Censorship Do Literature May Nothing Whatever
Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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Have Ide never Oneself Sincerity
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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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 facts are always less than what really happened.
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Always Fact Happen Less Really What
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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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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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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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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Communist Lat Optimist
My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Answer Other Recognize Yourself
I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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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.
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Area Censorship Feel Few Identity Literature One Purpose Some Struggle
People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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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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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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Analysemwould Canyon Cross Down Themselves Tightrope Writer
Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Certainly Close Feel Free Happier People
You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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Basis Change Compassion Got Harder Regime Something

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