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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.

Nadine Gordimer

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If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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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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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? 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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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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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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Writing is making sense of life.
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Life Make Sense Writing
People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Come Confidence Measure Mood
in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Matter Sex Writing
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.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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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.
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Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
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