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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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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
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Between Committed Eye Fade Fint Follow Gap Indifferent Mind Only Out Sagara Sand Trail
In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Human Being Living Neutral Remain Truly
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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Become Certainty Country Help Known Nuisance Overseas South Value Writer
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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Banned Country Decide Fellow Government Nothing Television Want Write
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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Away Change Often Support Swept Very
Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Do Know Next Sentiment Those To What
I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Afraid Been Fail Many never Thing
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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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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Country Fall Learn Life Sent Surface Through
Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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Always Discovery Oyage Writing
From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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I’m a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can’t see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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Air Always Burn Candle Current Frame Need One Sea Steadies
A desert is a place without expectation.
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Desert Expectation Place Without
When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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All Child Difference Great Living Made Remote Rest Seem Television World
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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Attitude Bush Grasland Gret Indigenous Openness Primacy Serenity Silver Tree Word Yellow

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