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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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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Another Gift Give One People Thing Wrap
Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Do Know Next Sentiment Those To What
My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Answer Other Recognize Yourself
Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
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Bring Chosen Country Fundamental People Sense Well
Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? 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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Absolutely Country Imagine Influence Thing Writer
Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Certainly Close Feel Free Happier People
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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Become Certainty Country Help Known Nuisance Overseas South Value Writer
If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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Away Break Change Continuity Country Live never Past Seem Thing Throw
Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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Amazing Best Bring Human Nature Power Word Worst Written
The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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Become Cage Eagle Form Imprisonment Isolation Metaphor Prison Ultimate Zoo
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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Area Life Made Make Perhaps Sense Small Writing
Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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All Attempt Celebration Defeat Define Degrade Destroy Existence Life Representing Spite
A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Bring Child Fear Hate Hurt Understand
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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Area Censorship Feel Few Identity Literature One Purpose Some Struggle
Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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Interview Most People Identified Society
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Await Creativity Outside Responsibility
Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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Analysemwould Canyon Cross Down Themselves Tightrope Writer
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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Change Function Life Light Make Mystery Sense Such Time Writer
You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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Basis Change Compassion Got Harder Regime Something
The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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Basis Bend Brain Human Mind Percussion Primarily Psyche Pulp Use Wash Word
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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Account Always Conquer Desolation Fear Impossible Loss Preparation Source Taken
The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can’t believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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Among Communist Country Especially Party People Popular Young
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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Actual Got Need Out She Thing Think Time Work Writer Writing
I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Afraid Been Fail Many never Thing
As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Existence Explore Myself Mystery Writer
Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Happen Horror Newspaper Other People
All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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All Come Individual Privately Purse Vision Worthwhile Writing

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