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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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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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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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Desert Expectation Place Without
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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Between Committed Eye Fade Fint Follow Gap Indifferent Mind Only Out Sagara Sand Trail
I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Autobiography Jealous Much never Privacy Shall That
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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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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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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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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Matter Sex Writing

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