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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Another Gift Give One People Thing Wrap
Books dont need batteries
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Battery Book Need
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Await Creativity Outside Responsibility
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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Close Day Disappear Frightening Happiness Madness One Quite Solitude Touch Writing
About the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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Country Courage Joy Know Left never Now Other People Really Think
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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All Attempt Celebration Defeat Define Degrade Destroy Existence Life Representing Spite
I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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Being Contempt Human Interested Sufficiently Writer
Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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Always Discovery Oyage Writing
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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Convince Innocence Power Sid Something Womb
Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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Factual Fiction Nothing Say Truthful Write
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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Horror Known Miracle One Ought Saint Suffer
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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Account Always Conquer Desolation Fear Impossible Loss Preparation Source Taken
The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Always Fact Happen Less Really What
From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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Character Country From Learn Listen People Person Place Story Unsaid Went
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
A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Bring Child Fear Hate Hurt Understand

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