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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

Nadine Gordimer

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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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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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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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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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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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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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