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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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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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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 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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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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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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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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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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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.
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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.
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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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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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