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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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