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Censorship Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the
imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place – a single book written from different stages of your ability.
grasp the consciousness of your time and place – a single book written
from different stages of your ability.
Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.
Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self.Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self.
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
Books don't need batteries.Books don't need batteries.
I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
I don't cry. Unfortunately, I seem rather short of tears, so my sorrows have to stay inside me," to Rosanna Greenstreet in a 2012 Guardian Q&A.I don't cry. Unfortunately, I seem rather short of tears, so my sorrows have to stay inside me," to Rosanna Greenstreet in a 2012 Guardian Q&A.
On Nelson Mandela:On Nelson Mandela:
He is at the epicentre of our time, ours in South Africa, and yours, wherever you are.He is at the epicentre of our time, ours in South Africa, and yours, wherever you are.
Not a figure carved in stone but a tall man, of flesh and Not a figure carved in stone but a tall man, of flesh and blood, whose suffering had made him not vengeful but still more human - even toward the people who had created the prison that was apartheid.
blood, whose suffering had made him not vengeful but still more
human - even toward the people who had created the prison that was
apartheid.