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 GORDIMERThe 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.
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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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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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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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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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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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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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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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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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Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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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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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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