As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
NADINE GORDIMERMy answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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About the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn’t speak publicly.
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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Books dont need batteries
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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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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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