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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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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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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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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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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 truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Always Beauty Hunger Truth
Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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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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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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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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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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I never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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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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