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About the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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.
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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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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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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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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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