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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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Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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It’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Life Limit Music No Span
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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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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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Among Communist Country Especially Party People Popular Young
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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Area Life Made Make Perhaps Sense Small Writing
The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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