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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.

Nadine Gordimer

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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Answer Other Recognize Yourself
Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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Fade Nothing Quickly So Unchnage
I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn’t speak publicly.
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Banned Country Decide Fellow Government Nothing Television Want Write
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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Bring Chosen Country Fundamental People Sense Well
in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Matter Sex Writing
People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Another Gift Give One People Thing Wrap
You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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Basis Change Compassion Got Harder Regime Something
Writing is making sense of life.
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Life Make Sense Writing
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Await Creativity Outside Responsibility
Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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Always Discovery Oyage Writing
Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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Appear Censorship Exile Exist Fragment Genius Index Joyce Longer Mode Place Work
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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Decide Destroy Eath Forget Heaven People Rationalism Set Utopia Would
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
The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can’t believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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Among Communist Country Especially Party People Popular Young
I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Afraid Been Fail Many never Thing
In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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Being Certain Consciousness Era Own Select Sense Subject Writer

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