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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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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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Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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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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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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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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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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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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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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