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I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn’t speak publicly.

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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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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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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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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