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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Existence Explore Myself Mystery Writer
My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Answer Other Recognize Yourself
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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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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Abstraction Always Another Country Desirable Embarrassing Exist God Pamphlet Thank Tourist
Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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After Change Measure Much Passage Thing Time
There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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Interview Most People Identified Society
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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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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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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