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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

Nadine Gordimer

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A desert is a place without expectation.
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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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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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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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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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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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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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Writing is making sense of life.
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Life Make Sense Writing
Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Alone Hear Keenness One Review
Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Disaster Private Way Love
I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Can Live Me Not Someone Without
I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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