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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

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 easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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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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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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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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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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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 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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A desert is a place without expectation.
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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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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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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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