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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Nadine Gordimer

In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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Certain Circumstance Go Individual Object Out Turn Various Vital
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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Analysemwould Canyon Cross Down Themselves Tightrope Writer
About the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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Country Courage Joy Know Left never Now Other People Really Think
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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Impossible Learn Most Since Sometimes Thing Want
I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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Being Contempt Human Interested Sufficiently Writer
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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Citizen Closely Country Much Other Own Part Relate Think Very World
Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Disaster Private Way Love
Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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Attempt Book Consciousness Life One Place Really Time Whole
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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Basis Bend Brain Human Mind Percussion Primarily Psyche Pulp Use Wash Word
I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn’t speak publicly.
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Banned Country Decide Fellow Government Nothing Television Want Write
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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Continuing Convenience Definition Gap Menn Narrow Perhaps Progress Women
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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Absolutely Betray Have Recieve Talent Think Work Write
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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Between Committed Eye Fade Fint Follow Gap Indifferent Mind Only Out Sagara Sand Trail
Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
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Area Censorship Feel Few Identity Literature One Purpose Some Struggle
Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Happen Horror Newspaper Other People
I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Autobiography Jealous Much never Privacy Shall That

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