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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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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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After Change Measure Much Passage Thing Time
One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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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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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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Area Life Made Make Perhaps Sense Small Writing
I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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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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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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About the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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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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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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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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