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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.

Nadine Gordimer

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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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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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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? 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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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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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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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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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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