Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
NADINE GORDIMERAbout 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.
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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.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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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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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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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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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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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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Books dont need batteries
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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