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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Nadine Gordimer

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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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Books dont need batteries
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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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A desert is a place without expectation.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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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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Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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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 I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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