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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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Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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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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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.
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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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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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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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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more – absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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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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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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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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