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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.

Nadine Gordimer

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Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
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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 creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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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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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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Books dont need batteries
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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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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Writing is making sense of life.
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Life Make Sense Writing
The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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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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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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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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It’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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Aside Dormer Easier Face Former Humanity Mask Master Put Recognise Slave Underneath
Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Certainly Close Feel Free Happier People
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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Horror Known Miracle One Ought Saint Suffer

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