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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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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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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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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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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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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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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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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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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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