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Nadine Gordimer

in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Matter Sex Writing
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
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
I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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Citizen Closely Country Much Other Own Part Relate Think Very World
I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Autobiography Jealous Much never Privacy Shall That
The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Always Beauty Hunger Truth
Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Disaster Private Way Love
Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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Continuing Convenience Definition Gap Menn Narrow Perhaps Progress Women
In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
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Become Certainty Country Help Known Nuisance Overseas South Value Writer
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
Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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Factual Fiction Nothing Say Truthful Write
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
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
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
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
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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Brush Country Dreamt Each Other Life Past Present Street Sunbconcious Walk While

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