I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.

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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.

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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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Absolutely Thing Writer
Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Censorship Do May Nothing Whatever
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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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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Certain Circumstance Go Object Out Various Vital
It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.

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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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Horror Known One Ought Saint Suffer
in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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Basis Percussion Primarily Psyche Pulp Use Wash Word
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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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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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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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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Analysemwould Canyon Down Themselves Tightrope Writer
Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.

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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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Most People Identified
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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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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Become Certainty Known Nuisance Overseas South Writer
If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.

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If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
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Feel First Second While
Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.

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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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Learn Sent Through
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

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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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Sid Something Womb
I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn’t speak publicly.

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I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn’t speak publicly.
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Banned Fellow Nothing Write
Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Hold Qualified Sometimes
I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.

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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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