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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

Nadine Gordimer

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Communists are the last optimists.
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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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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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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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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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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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Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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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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Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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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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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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