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If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.

Nadine Gordimer

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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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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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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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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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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Being Between Fully Make Standing Tension Writer
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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Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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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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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Can Live Me Not Someone Without
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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a writer doesn’t only need the time when he’s actually writing – he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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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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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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