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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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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
One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Come Confidence Measure Mood
From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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Fade Nothing Quickly So Unchnage
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Await Creativity Outside Responsibility
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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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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Appear Censorship Exile Exist Fragment Genius Index Joyce Longer Mode Place Work
Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Disaster Private Way Love
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
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
Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Censorship Do Literature May Nothing Whatever
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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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
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Between Committed Eye Fade Fint Follow Gap Indifferent Mind Only Out Sagara Sand Trail
There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Authority Moral Sacrifice

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