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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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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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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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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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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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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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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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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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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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