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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.

Nadine Gordimer

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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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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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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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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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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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