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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.

Nadine Gordimer

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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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Being Contempt Human Interested Sufficiently Writer
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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Analysemwould Canyon Cross Down Themselves Tightrope Writer
Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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Fade Nothing Quickly So Unchnage
Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Happen Horror Newspaper Other People
The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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Being Between Fully Make Standing Tension Writer
As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Existence Explore Myself Mystery Writer
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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All Any Ariely Bloody Genius Hope Light Olay Pocket Sudden Through Torch Worth Write Yet
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Await Creativity Outside Responsibility
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
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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Abstraction Always Another Country Desirable Embarrassing Exist God Pamphlet Thank Tourist
Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Alone End Everyone Move Self Toward
when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Androgynous Being Come Essential Faculty Writer
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
If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
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Always Better Country Feel First Second Stay While Will
All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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All Come Individual Privately Purse Vision Worthwhile Writing
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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Among Communist Country Especially Party People Popular Young
Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Disaster Private Way Love
People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Another Gift Give One People Thing Wrap
Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Alone Hear Keenness One Review
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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All Child Difference Great Living Made Remote Rest Seem Television World
The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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Change Function Life Light Make Mystery Sense Such Time Writer
One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Come Confidence Measure Mood
About the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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Country Courage Joy Know Left never Now Other People Really Think
The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Always Beauty Hunger Truth
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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Decide Destroy Eath Forget Heaven People Rationalism Set Utopia Would
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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