My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
NADINE GORDIMERWell, 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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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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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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 decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn’t speak publicly.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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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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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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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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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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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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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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