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The facts are always less than what really happened.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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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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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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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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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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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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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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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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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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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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