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It’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.

Nadine Gordimer

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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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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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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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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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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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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’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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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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