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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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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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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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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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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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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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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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