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Nadine Gordimer

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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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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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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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September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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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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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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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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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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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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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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