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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

Nadine Gordimer

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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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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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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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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Bring Child Fear Hate Hurt Understand
You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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Have Ide never Oneself Sincerity
Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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