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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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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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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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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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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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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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