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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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Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
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It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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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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Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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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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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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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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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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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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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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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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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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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.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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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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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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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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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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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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