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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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Certainly Close Feel Free Happier People
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
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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Act Come Creation Evidence Extract History Loe People Read Person Pure Realize Sociology Writer
From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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Character Country From Learn Listen People Person Place Story Unsaid Went
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
Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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Amazing Best Bring Human Nature Power Word Worst Written
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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Air Always Burn Candle Current Frame Need One Sea Steadies
The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Always Fact Happen Less Really What
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
in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Matter Sex Writing
Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more – absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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Absolutely Country Imagine Influence Thing Writer
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
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
Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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Analysemwould Canyon Cross Down Themselves Tightrope Writer
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
Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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Animal Bless Curse Faculty Higher Human Only Regard Self Torture Want Why

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