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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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Writing is making sense of life.
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Life Make Sense Writing
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
A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Books dont need batteries
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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Basis Change Compassion Got Harder Regime Something
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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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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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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Area Life Made Make Perhaps Sense Small Writing
Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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Always Discovery Oyage Writing
Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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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
it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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