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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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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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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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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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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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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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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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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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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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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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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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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
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