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

Nadine Gordimer

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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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All Come Individual Privately Purse Vision Worthwhile Writing
Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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Have Ide never Oneself Sincerity
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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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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Writing is making sense of life.
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Life Make Sense Writing
In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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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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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
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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
Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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After Change Measure Much Passage Thing Time
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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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Books dont need batteries
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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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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