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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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I’m a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can’t see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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I never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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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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a writer doesn’t only need the time when he’s actually writing – he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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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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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
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