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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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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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Always Discovery Oyage Writing
September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? 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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Books dont need batteries
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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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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