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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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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Happen Horror Newspaper Other People
If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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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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a writer doesn’t only need the time when he’s actually writing – he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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Books dont need batteries
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September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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Brush Country Dreamt Each Other Life Past Present Street Sunbconcious Walk While
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 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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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Do Know Next Sentiment Those To What
I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Can Live Me Not Someone Without
There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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Beauty Filling Moral No
Music has no limits of a life-span.
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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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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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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 creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can’t believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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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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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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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn’t speak publicly.
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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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