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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.

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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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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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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 shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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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 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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The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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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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Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
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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 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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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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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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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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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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