You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
NADINE GORDIMERIn various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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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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I never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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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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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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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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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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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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