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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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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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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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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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Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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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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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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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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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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