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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.

Nadine Gordimer

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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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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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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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