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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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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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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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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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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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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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