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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.

Nadine Gordimer

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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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Fade Nothing Quickly So Unchnage
Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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After Change Measure Much Passage Thing Time
Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Life Limit Music No Span
Writing is making sense of life.
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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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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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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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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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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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Books dont need batteries
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Battery Book Need
The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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Close Day Disappear Frightening Happiness Madness One Quite Solitude Touch Writing
Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Do Know Next Sentiment Those To What
It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Await Creativity Outside Responsibility

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