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NADINE GORDIMERIt was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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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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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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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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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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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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