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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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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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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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The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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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 worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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