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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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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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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.
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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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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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Books dont need batteries
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Answer Other Recognize Yourself
Writing is making sense of life.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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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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