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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more – absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.

Nadine Gordimer

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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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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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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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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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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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