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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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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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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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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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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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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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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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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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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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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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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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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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