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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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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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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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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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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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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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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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