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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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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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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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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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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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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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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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Writing is making sense of life.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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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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