The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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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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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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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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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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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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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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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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