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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Nadine Gordimer

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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Can Live Me Not Someone Without
When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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All Child Difference Great Living Made Remote Rest Seem Television World
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
Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Define Disaster Hold Qualified Sometimes Success
A desert is a place without expectation.
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Desert Expectation Place Without
Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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After Change Measure Much Passage Thing Time
Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Certainly Close Feel Free Happier People
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
If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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Away Break Change Continuity Country Live never Past Seem Thing Throw
If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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Decide Destroy Eath Forget Heaven People Rationalism Set Utopia Would
Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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All Any Ariely Bloody Genius Hope Light Olay Pocket Sudden Through Torch Worth Write Yet
All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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All Come Individual Privately Purse Vision Worthwhile Writing
I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Afraid Been Fail Many never Thing
It’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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Aside Dormer Easier Face Former Humanity Mask Master Put Recognise Slave Underneath
The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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Become Cage Eagle Form Imprisonment Isolation Metaphor Prison Ultimate Zoo
Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Do Know Next Sentiment Those To What
Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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Amazing Best Bring Human Nature Power Word Worst Written
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
Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Alone Hear Keenness One Review
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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Convince Innocence Power Sid Something Womb
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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Afraid Already Answerable Best Dead One Perhaps Reaction View Way Write
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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Act Creative Demand Evidence Exact Ideology Pure Society
As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Existence Explore Myself Mystery Writer
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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Area Life Made Make Perhaps Sense Small Writing
A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Human Being Living Neutral Remain Truly
Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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Animal Bless Curse Faculty Higher Human Only Regard Self Torture Want Why
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

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