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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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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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It’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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But Explore Fiction Life Live Possibility Present Single Undreamt Way

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