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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature

Nadine Gordimer

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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
I never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
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Currently Need never No Obligation Own Private Talk Work Write
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
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
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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Become Certainty Country Help Known Nuisance Overseas South Value Writer
It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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Horror Known Miracle One Ought Saint Suffer
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
All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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All Come Individual Privately Purse Vision Worthwhile Writing
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Await Creativity Outside Responsibility
Writing is making sense of life.
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Life Make Sense Writing
You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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Basis Change Compassion Got Harder Regime Something
Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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After Change Measure Much Passage Thing Time
The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Always Fact Happen Less Really What
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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Act Come Creation Evidence Extract History Loe People Read Person Pure Realize Sociology Writer
Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Disaster Private Way Love
If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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Brush Country Dreamt Each Other Life Past Present Street Sunbconcious Walk While

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