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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.

Nadine Gordimer

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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Can Live Me Not Someone Without
I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Autobiography Jealous Much never Privacy Shall That
About the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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All Attempt Celebration Defeat Define Degrade Destroy Existence Life Representing Spite
Books dont need batteries
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Battery Book Need
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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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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Always Discovery Oyage Writing
Communists are the last optimists.
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Communist Lat Optimist
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Do Know Next Sentiment Those To What
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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Aside Dormer Easier Face Former Humanity Mask Master Put Recognise Slave Underneath
The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Always Beauty Hunger Truth
in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Matter Sex Writing
Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Censorship Do Literature May Nothing Whatever
Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Disaster Private Way Love
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

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