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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

Nadine Gordimer

People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Another Gift Give One People Thing Wrap
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.
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Absolutely Country Imagine Influence More Writer
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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Impossible Learn Most Since Sometimes Thing Want
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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Become Certainty Country Help Known Nuisance Overseas South Value Writer
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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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Can Live Me Not Someone Without
Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Life Limit Music No Span
The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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Become Cage Eagle Form Imprisonment Isolation Metaphor Prison Ultimate Zoo
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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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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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 tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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It’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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Aside Dormer Easier Face Former Humanity Mask Master Put Recognise Slave Underneath
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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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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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

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