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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.

Nadine Gordimer

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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Always Fact Happen Less Really What
Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? 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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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
In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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Always Discovery Oyage Writing
My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Answer Other Recognize Yourself
People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Another Gift Give One People Thing Wrap
Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Alone End Everyone Move Self Toward
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Await Creativity Outside Responsibility
You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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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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All Attempt Celebration Defeat Define Degrade Destroy Existence Life Representing Spite
Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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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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