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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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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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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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If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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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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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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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