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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

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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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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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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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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Alone Hear Keenness One Review

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