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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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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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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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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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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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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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Books dont need batteries
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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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a writer doesn’t only need the time when he’s actually writing – he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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