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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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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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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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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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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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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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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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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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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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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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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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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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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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