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Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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Area Life Made Make Perhaps Sense Small Writing
Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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Factual Fiction Nothing Say Truthful Write
Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Happen Horror Newspaper Other People
The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can’t believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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Among Communist Country Especially Party People Popular Young
A desert is a place without expectation.
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Desert Expectation Place Without
Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Do Know Next Sentiment Those To What
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.
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Absolutely Country Imagine Influence Thing Writer
Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Disaster Private Way Love
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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Absolutely Betray Have Recieve Talent Think Work Write
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
In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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Being Certain Consciousness Era Own Select Sense Subject Writer
I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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Expect Face Five Forty Leg Nine Twenty
There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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Beauty Filling Moral No
The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Always Fact Happen Less Really What
in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Matter Sex Writing
I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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Citizen Closely Country Much Other Own Part Relate Think Very World

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