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I’m a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can’t see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.

Nadine Gordimer

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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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Fade Nothing Quickly So Unchnage
Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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Factual Fiction Nothing Say Truthful Write
From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Certainly Close Feel Free Happier People
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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Convince Innocence Power Sid Something Womb
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Await Creativity Outside Responsibility
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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Area Life Made Make Perhaps Sense Small Writing
All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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All Come Individual Privately Purse Vision Worthwhile Writing
Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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Away Change Often Support Swept Very
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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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Have Ide never Oneself Sincerity
Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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After Change Measure Much Passage Thing Time
Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Alone Hear Keenness One Review

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