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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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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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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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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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September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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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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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
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