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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others

Nadine Gordimer

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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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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 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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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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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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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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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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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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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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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
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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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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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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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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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn’t speak publicly.
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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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