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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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Writing is making sense of life.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Answer Other Recognize Yourself
One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Come Confidence Measure Mood
In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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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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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Androgynous Being Come Essential Faculty Writer
Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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Have Ide never Oneself Sincerity
Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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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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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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