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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 function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn’t speak publicly.
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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
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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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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Disaster Private Way Love
a writer doesn’t only need the time when he’s actually writing – he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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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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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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Factual Fiction Nothing Say Truthful Write
Communists are the last optimists.
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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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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Do Know Next Sentiment Those To What
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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But Explore Fiction Life Live Possibility Present Single Undreamt Way
in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Matter Sex Writing
Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Alone End Everyone Move Self Toward
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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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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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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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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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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It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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