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In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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Away Change Often Support Swept Very
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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Convince Innocence Power Sid Something Womb
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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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Come Confidence Measure Mood
Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Do Know Next Sentiment Those To What
Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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Country Fall Learn Life Sent Surface Through
The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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Brush Country Dreamt Each Other Life Past Present Street Sunbconcious Walk While
Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Books dont need batteries
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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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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Being Certain Consciousness Era Own Select Sense Subject Writer
In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
NADINE GORDIMER

Become Certainty Country Help Known Nuisance Overseas South Value Writer
I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Can Live Me Not Someone Without
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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All Attempt Celebration Defeat Define Degrade Destroy Existence Life Representing Spite
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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