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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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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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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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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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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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Alone Hear Keenness One Review
One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Come Confidence Measure Mood
A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Human Being Living Neutral Remain Truly
I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Can Live Me Not Someone Without
Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Censorship Do Literature May Nothing Whatever
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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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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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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Analysemwould Canyon Cross Down Themselves Tightrope Writer

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