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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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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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Bring Chosen Country Fundamental People Sense Well
September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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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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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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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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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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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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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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Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Books dont need batteries
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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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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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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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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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Writing is making sense of life.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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