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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.

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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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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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.
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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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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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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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