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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.

Nadine Gordimer

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If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
NADINE GORDIMER

Being Certain Consciousness Era Own Select Sense Subject Writer
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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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Come Confidence Measure Mood
From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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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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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Always Beauty Hunger Truth
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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