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Writing is making sense of life.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Books dont need batteries
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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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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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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 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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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
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