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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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I’m a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can’t see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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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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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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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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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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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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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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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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Writing is making sense of life.
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Life Make Sense Writing
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 truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Do Know Next Sentiment Those To What
I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Can Live Me Not Someone Without
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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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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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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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Define Disaster Hold Qualified Sometimes Success
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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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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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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Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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