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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.

Nadine Gordimer

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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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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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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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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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