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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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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Always Beauty Hunger Truth
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Existence Explore Myself Mystery Writer
Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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Country Fall Learn Life Sent Surface Through
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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Become Certainty Country Help Known Nuisance Overseas South Value Writer
Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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Interview Most People Identified Society
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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Aside Dormer Easier Face Former Humanity Mask Master Put Recognise Slave Underneath
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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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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Being Contempt Human Interested Sufficiently Writer
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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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Have Ide never Oneself Sincerity
Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Happen Horror Newspaper Other People
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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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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After Change Measure Much Passage Thing Time
when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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