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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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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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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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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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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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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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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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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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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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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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