Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
NADINE GORDIMERWritten words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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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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The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can’t believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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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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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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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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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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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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