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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.

Nadine Gordimer

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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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Communist Lat Optimist
Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Alone End Everyone Move Self Toward
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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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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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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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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Beauty Filling Moral No
The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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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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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Come Confidence Measure Mood
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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Analysemwould Canyon Cross Down Themselves Tightrope Writer
All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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All Come Individual Privately Purse Vision Worthwhile Writing
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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Absolutely Country Imagine Influence More Writer
Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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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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Basis Change Compassion Got Harder Regime Something

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