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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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I’m a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can’t see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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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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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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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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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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