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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.

Nadine Gordimer

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A desert is a place without expectation.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.
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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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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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I’m a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can’t see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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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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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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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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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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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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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
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