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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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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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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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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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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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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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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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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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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
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If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
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