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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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Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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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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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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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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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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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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Books dont need batteries
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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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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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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