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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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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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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I’m a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can’t see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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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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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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