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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.

Nadine Gordimer

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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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I never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
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a writer doesn’t only need the time when he’s actually writing – he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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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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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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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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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn’t speak publicly.
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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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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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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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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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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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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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