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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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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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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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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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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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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Answer Other Recognize Yourself
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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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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It’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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Aside Dormer Easier Face Former Humanity Mask Master Put Recognise Slave Underneath

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