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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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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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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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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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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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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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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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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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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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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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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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