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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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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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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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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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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.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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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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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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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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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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