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The facts are always less than what really happened.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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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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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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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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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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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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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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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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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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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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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