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If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.

Nadine Gordimer

A desert is a place without expectation.
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Desert Expectation Place Without
Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
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Back Begin Child Enter Fact Front Happen Realise Rebirth Simply Thought White
Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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Animal Bless Curse Faculty Higher Human Only Regard Self Torture Want Why
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
Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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Attempt Book Consciousness Life One Place Really Time Whole
Communists are the last optimists.
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Communist Lat Optimist
If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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Decide Destroy Eath Forget Heaven People Rationalism Set Utopia Would
My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Answer Other Recognize Yourself
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
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
When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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All Child Difference Great Living Made Remote Rest Seem Television World
a writer doesn’t only need the time when he’s actually writing – he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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Actual Got Need Out She Thing Think Time Work Writer Writing
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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Currently Need never No Obligation Own Private Talk Work Write
I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Can Live Me Not Someone Without
Books dont need batteries
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Battery Book Need
Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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Away Change Often Support Swept Very

If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.

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