Telling Times: writing and living Quotes
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“A desert is a place without expectation.”
“There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.”
“The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
“Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.”
“The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.”
“Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.”
“Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.”
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“Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church.”
“Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.”
“The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.”
“Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.”