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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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Writing is making sense of life.
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Life Make Sense Writing
The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
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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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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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Fade Nothing Quickly So Unchnage
I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Define Disaster Hold Qualified Sometimes Success
September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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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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But Explore Fiction Life Live Possibility Present Single Undreamt Way
A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Human Being Living Neutral Remain Truly
Music has no limits of a life-span.
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It’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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Aside Dormer Easier Face Former Humanity Mask Master Put Recognise Slave Underneath
As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Existence Explore Myself Mystery Writer
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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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Another Gift Give One People Thing Wrap

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