Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
NADINE GORDIMERThe 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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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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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Books dont need batteries
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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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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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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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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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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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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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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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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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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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