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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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September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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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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it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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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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Country Fall Learn Life Sent Surface Through
The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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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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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Define Disaster Hold Qualified Sometimes Success
I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Can Live Me Not Someone Without
Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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Interview Most People Identified Society
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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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Come Confidence Measure Mood
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

Aside Dormer Easier Face Former Humanity Mask Master Put Recognise Slave Underneath
From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Authority Moral Sacrifice

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