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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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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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Books dont need batteries
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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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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