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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.

Nadine Gordimer

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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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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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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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I never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
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Currently Need never No Obligation Own Private Talk Work Write
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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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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A desert is a place without expectation.
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Desert Expectation Place Without
Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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Fade Nothing Quickly So Unchnage
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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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.
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