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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self

Nadine Gordimer

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Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
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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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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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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
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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Horror Known Miracle One Ought Saint Suffer
in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Matter Sex Writing
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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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Afraid Been Fail Many never Thing
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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Absolutely Betray Have Recieve Talent Think Work Write
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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