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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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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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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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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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a writer doesn’t only need the time when he’s actually writing – he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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