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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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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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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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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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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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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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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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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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