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It’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.

Nadine Gordimer

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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Alone Hear Keenness One Review
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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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Censorship Do Literature May Nothing Whatever
Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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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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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
People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Another Gift Give One People Thing Wrap
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
Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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Fade Nothing Quickly So Unchnage
Books dont need batteries
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Battery Book Need
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
when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Androgynous Being Come Essential Faculty Writer
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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Life Limit Music No Span

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