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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

Nadine Gordimer

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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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Horror Known Miracle One Ought Saint Suffer
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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Decide Destroy Eath Forget Heaven People Rationalism Set Utopia Would
Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Censorship Do Literature May Nothing Whatever
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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Change Function Life Light Make Mystery Sense Such Time Writer
One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Come Confidence Measure Mood
There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Authority Moral Sacrifice
It’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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Aside Dormer Easier Face Former Humanity Mask Master Put Recognise Slave Underneath
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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Between Committed Eye Fade Fint Follow Gap Indifferent Mind Only Out Sagara Sand Trail
Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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Attitude Bush Grasland Gret Indigenous Openness Primacy Serenity Silver Tree Word Yellow
All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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All Come Individual Privately Purse Vision Worthwhile Writing
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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Act Creative Demand Evidence Exact Ideology Pure Society
I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn’t speak publicly.
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Banned Country Decide Fellow Government Nothing Television Want Write
It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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Absolutely Betray Have Recieve Talent Think Work Write
Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Alone End Everyone Move Self Toward
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
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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Away Break Change Continuity Country Live never Past Seem Thing Throw

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