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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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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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All Come Individual Privately Purse Vision Worthwhile Writing
Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Do Know Next Sentiment Those To What
I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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Expect Face Five Forty Leg Nine Twenty
In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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Being Certain Consciousness Era Own Select Sense Subject Writer
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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Back Begin Child Enter Fact Front Happen Realise Rebirth Simply Thought White
Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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Have Ide never Oneself Sincerity
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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All Any Ariely Bloody Genius Hope Light Olay Pocket Sudden Through Torch Worth Write Yet
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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Change Function Life Light Make Mystery Sense Such Time Writer
The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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Being Between Fully Make Standing Tension Writer
Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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Interview Most People Identified Society
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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Attempt Book Consciousness Life One Place Really Time Whole
Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Life Limit Music No Span
I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Can Live Me Not Someone Without
Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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Fade Nothing Quickly So Unchnage
A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Disaster Private Way Love

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