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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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.
The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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.
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
Can there be the phenomenon of a world state of mind?
Fear Eats the Soul (2003)
The farm hasn’t managed that for us, of course, but it has done other things, unexpected, illogical.”
Six Feet of the Country (1956)
Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
Everyone wears the uniform of how he sees himself or how he disguises himself.
The House Gun (1997)
Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
The conscience of South Africa talks about her country's new racial order (1998)
I think that the decision to be sincere is an artistic one.
Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.
Burger's Daughter (1979)
Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
Fear. It's unacknowledged; shared by friend and foe if nothing else is.
Fear Eats the Soul (2003)
There are always sources of desolation that aren't taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
Burger's Daughter (1979)
I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
The conscience of South Africa talks about her country's new racial order (1998)
The purpose of life is to defend the body against the violence of pain.
The House Gun (1998)
Out in the country, even ten miles out, life is better than that.
Six Feet of the Country (1956)
Disgust, a disintegration of everything.
The House Gun (1998)