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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature

Nadine Gordimer

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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Human Being Living Neutral Remain Truly
My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Answer Other Recognize Yourself
when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Androgynous Being Come Essential Faculty Writer
Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.
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Afraid Already Answerable Best Dead One Perhaps Reaction View Way Write
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
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
It’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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Aside Dormer Easier Face Former Humanity Mask Master Put Recognise Slave Underneath
You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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Basis Change Compassion Got Harder Regime Something
I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Afraid Been Fail Many never Thing
Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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Animal Bless Curse Faculty Higher Human Only Regard Self Torture Want Why
Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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Continuing Convenience Definition Gap Menn Narrow Perhaps Progress Women
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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Currently Need never No Obligation Own Private Talk Work Write
Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Do Know Next Sentiment Those To What
The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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Become Cage Eagle Form Imprisonment Isolation Metaphor Prison Ultimate Zoo
Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Happen Horror Newspaper Other People
Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Alone End Everyone Move Self Toward

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