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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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