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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.

Nadine Gordimer

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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 caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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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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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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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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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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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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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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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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A desert is a place without expectation.
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