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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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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
Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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Always Discovery Oyage Writing
I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Afraid Been Fail Many never Thing
Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
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Bring Chosen Country Fundamental People Sense Well
It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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Absolutely Betray Have Recieve Talent Think Work Write
Books dont need batteries
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Battery Book Need
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
There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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Beauty Filling Moral No
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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Account Always Conquer Desolation Fear Impossible Loss Preparation Source Taken
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
I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Can Live Me Not Someone Without
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Await Creativity Outside Responsibility
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
A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Human Being Living Neutral Remain Truly
A desert is a place without expectation.
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Desert Expectation Place Without
I’m a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can’t see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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Air Always Burn Candle Current Frame Need One Sea Steadies

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