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“...with an understanding of Shakespeare there comes a release from the gullibility that makes you prey to the great shopkeeper who runs the world, and would sell you cheap to illusion.” quote by Nadine Gordimer — Download Open image

““...with an understanding of Shakespeare there comes a release from the gullibility that makes you prey to the great shopkeeper who runs the world, and would sell you cheap to illusion.””

Nadine Gordimer

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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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I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.

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The facts are always less than what really happened.

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“Death's the discarder.”

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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.

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Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.

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“I would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.”

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“Death is really the mystery of life, isn't it?”

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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.

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“you like to have some cup of tea?-July bent at the doorway and began that day for them as his kind has always done for their kind.”

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Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation.

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The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.

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once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right

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