A desert is a place without expectation.
NADINE GORDIMERWriting is making sense of life.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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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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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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I’m a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can’t see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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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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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 creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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