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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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Impossible Learn Most Since Sometimes Thing Want
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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Banned Country Decide Fellow Government Nothing Television Want Write
The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
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Between Committed Eye Fade Fint Follow Gap Indifferent Mind Only Out Sagara Sand Trail
Writing is making sense of life.
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Life Make Sense Writing
I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Autobiography Jealous Much never Privacy Shall That
when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Androgynous Being Come Essential Faculty Writer
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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But Explore Fiction Life Live Possibility Present Single Undreamt Way
People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Another Gift Give One People Thing Wrap
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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Attitude Bush Grasland Gret Indigenous Openness Primacy Serenity Silver Tree Word Yellow
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
There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Authority Moral Sacrifice
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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Appear Censorship Exile Exist Fragment Genius Index Joyce Longer Mode Place Work
in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Matter Sex Writing
There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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Beauty Filling Moral No
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
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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Decide Destroy Eath Forget Heaven People Rationalism Set Utopia Would

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