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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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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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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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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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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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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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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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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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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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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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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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