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Communists are the last optimists.

Nadine Gordimer

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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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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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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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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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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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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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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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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