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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Answer Other Recognize Yourself
I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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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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A desert is a place without expectation.
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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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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 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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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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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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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
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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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