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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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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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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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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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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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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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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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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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