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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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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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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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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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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
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