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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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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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Writing is making sense of life.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
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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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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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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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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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Area Life Made Make Perhaps Sense Small Writing
Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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Among Communist Country Especially Party People Popular Young
There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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