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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.

Nadine Gordimer

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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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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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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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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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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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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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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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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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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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