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Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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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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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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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Answer Other Recognize Yourself
in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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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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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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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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Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
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it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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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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