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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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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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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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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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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.
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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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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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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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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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