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

Nadine Gordimer

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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts 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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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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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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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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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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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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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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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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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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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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