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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.

Nadine Gordimer

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If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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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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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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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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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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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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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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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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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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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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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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