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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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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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September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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a writer doesn’t only need the time when he’s actually writing – he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Books dont need batteries
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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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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Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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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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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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