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Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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Fade Nothing Quickly So Unchnage
The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can’t believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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Among Communist Country Especially Party People Popular Young
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 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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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Existence Explore Myself Mystery Writer
Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more – absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Define Disaster Hold Qualified Sometimes Success
Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Alone End Everyone Move Self Toward
I’m a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can’t see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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About the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.

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