Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
NADINE GORDIMERI 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.
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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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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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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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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.
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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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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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