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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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Change Function Life Light Make Mystery Sense Such Time Writer
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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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.
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Citizen Closely Country Much Other Own Part Relate Think Very World
There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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Beauty Filling Moral No
People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Another Gift Give One People Thing Wrap
Writing is making sense of life.
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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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But Explore Fiction Life Live Possibility Present Single Undreamt Way
I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Afraid Been Fail Many never Thing
Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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Attempt Book Consciousness Life One Place Really Time Whole
Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Alone End Everyone Move Self Toward
All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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All Come Individual Privately Purse Vision Worthwhile Writing
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Await Creativity Outside Responsibility
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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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Disaster Private Way Love
The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Always Beauty Hunger Truth

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