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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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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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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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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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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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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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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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Books dont need batteries
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Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
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Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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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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