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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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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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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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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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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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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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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? 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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