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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature

Nadine Gordimer

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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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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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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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a writer doesn’t only need the time when he’s actually writing – he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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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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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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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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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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