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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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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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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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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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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Books dont need batteries
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Existence Explore Myself Mystery Writer
Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Do Know Next Sentiment Those To What
If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
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I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Disaster Private Way Love
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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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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a writer doesn’t only need the time when he’s actually writing – he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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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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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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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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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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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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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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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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