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Nadine Gordimer

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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
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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Attitude Bush Grasland Gret Indigenous Openness Primacy Serenity Silver Tree Word Yellow
Books dont need batteries
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Battery Book Need
Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Define Disaster Hold Qualified Sometimes Success
Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Do Know Next Sentiment Those To What
Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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After Change Measure Much Passage Thing Time
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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Impossible Learn Most Since Sometimes Thing Want
I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Can Live Me Not Someone Without
One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Come Confidence Measure Mood
Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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All Attempt Celebration Defeat Define Degrade Destroy Existence Life Representing Spite
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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Chapter Country Day Life Many One Poem September Story Sunny Thousand Transformation Two Work Writer Year
I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Afraid Been Fail Many never Thing
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
Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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Fade Nothing Quickly So Unchnage
Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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Appear Censorship Exile Exist Fragment Genius Index Joyce Longer Mode Place Work
Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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Country Fall Learn Life Sent Surface Through

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