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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.

Nadine Gordimer

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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Act Come Creation Evidence Extract History Loe People Read Person Pure Realize Sociology Writer
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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Brush Country Dreamt Each Other Life Past Present Street Sunbconcious Walk While
Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Alone End Everyone Move Self Toward
My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Answer Other Recognize Yourself
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
A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Human Being Living Neutral Remain Truly
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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Course Explain Include Life Mystery Personally Purpose Really Write
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
Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Define Disaster Hold Qualified Sometimes Success
a writer doesn’t only need the time when he’s actually writing – he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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Actual Got Need Out She Thing Think Time Work Writer Writing
About the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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Country Courage Joy Know Left never Now Other People Really Think
I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Can Live Me Not Someone Without
It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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Absolutely Betray Have Recieve Talent Think Work Write
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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Certain Circumstance Go Individual Object Out Turn Various Vital
Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Life Limit Music No Span
Communists are the last optimists.
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Communist Lat Optimist

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