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I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.

Nadine Gordimer

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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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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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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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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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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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If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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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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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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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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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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