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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.

Nadine Gordimer

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Communists are the last optimists.
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Communist Lat Optimist
A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Human Being Living Neutral Remain Truly
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
Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Censorship Do Literature May Nothing Whatever
The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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Close Day Disappear Frightening Happiness Madness One Quite Solitude Touch Writing
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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Certain Circumstance Go Individual Object Out Turn Various Vital
All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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All Come Individual Privately Purse Vision Worthwhile Writing
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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Banned Country Decide Fellow Government Nothing Television Want Write
In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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Being Certain Consciousness Era Own Select Sense Subject Writer
One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Come Confidence Measure Mood
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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Act Creative Demand Evidence Exact Ideology Pure Society
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
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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Area Censorship Feel Few Identity Literature One Purpose Some Struggle
Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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Interview Most People Identified Society
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
Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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Amazing Best Bring Human Nature Power Word Worst Written

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