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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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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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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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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