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The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can’t believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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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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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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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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Books dont need batteries
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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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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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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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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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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.
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