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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.

Nadine Gordimer

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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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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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it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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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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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Human Being Living Neutral Remain Truly
in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Matter Sex Writing
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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Writing is making sense of life.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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