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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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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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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.
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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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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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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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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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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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A desert is a place without expectation.
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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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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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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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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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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 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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