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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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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
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Between Committed Eye Fade Fint Follow Gap Indifferent Mind Only Out Sagara Sand Trail
I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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Expect Face Five Forty Leg Nine Twenty
Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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After Change Measure Much Passage Thing Time
Communists are the last optimists.
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Communist Lat Optimist
A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Human Being Living Neutral Remain Truly
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
Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Life Limit Music No Span
The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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Being Between Fully Make Standing Tension 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
As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Existence Explore Myself Mystery Writer
I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Can Live Me Not Someone Without
I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Afraid Been Fail Many never Thing
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
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
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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Away Change Often Support Swept Very
Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Certainly Close Feel Free Happier People

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