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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.

Nadine Gordimer

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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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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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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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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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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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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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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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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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