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Well, you know, in the fundame...

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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Learning to write sent me fall...

Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.

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There is no moral authority li...

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

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Time is change; we measure its...

Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.

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I'm forty-nine but I could be ...

I'm forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.

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Exile as a mode of genius no l...

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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What is the purpose of writing...

What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else.

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If one will always have to fee...

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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The tension between standing a...

The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.

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Perhaps the best definition of...

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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Where do whites fit in the New...

Where do whites fit in the New Africa? Nowhere, I'm inclined to sayand I do believe that it is true that even the gentlest and most westernised Africans would like the emotional idea of the continent entirely without the complication of the presence of the white man for a generation or two. But nowhere, as an answer for us whites, is in the same category as remarks like What's the use of living? in the face of the threat of atomic radiation. We are living; we are in Africa.

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Very often we support change, ...

Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.

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If you live in Europe . . . th...

If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don't have to throw the past away.

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what a writer does is to try t...

what a writer does is to try to make sense of life. I think that's what writing is, I think that's what painting is. It's seeking that thread of order and logic in the disorder, and the incredible waste and marvelous profligate character of life. What all artists are trying to do is to make sense of life.

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Censorship may have to do with...

Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.

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The creative act is not pure. ...

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.

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Humans, the only self-regardin...

Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.

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Disaster is private, in its wa...

Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.

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Fiction is a way of exploring ...

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

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You can't be afraid to do good...

You can't be afraid to do good in case evil results.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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