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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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Writing is making sense of life.
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Life Make Sense Writing
Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Alone Hear Keenness One Review
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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The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can’t believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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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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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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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Certainly Close Feel Free Happier People
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Await Creativity Outside Responsibility
I never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
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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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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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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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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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