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Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.

Nadine Gordimer

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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Always Beauty Hunger Truth
About the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Certainly Close Feel Free Happier People
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
Communists are the last optimists.
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Communist Lat Optimist
I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Can Live Me Not Someone Without
I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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Impossible Learn Most Since Sometimes Thing Want
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
Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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All Attempt Celebration Defeat Define Degrade Destroy Existence Life Representing Spite
The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Always Fact Happen Less Really What
The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Alone End Everyone Move Self Toward
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
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Await Creativity Outside Responsibility
Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Do Know Next Sentiment Those To What

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