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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.

Nadine Gordimer

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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.
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Horror Known Miracle One Ought Saint Suffer
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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But Explore Fiction Life Live Possibility Present Single Undreamt Way
One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Come Confidence Measure Mood
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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Area Life Made Make Perhaps Sense Small Writing
Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Alone End Everyone Move Self Toward
Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Do Know Next Sentiment Those To What
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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Basis Bend Brain Human Mind Percussion Primarily Psyche Pulp Use Wash Word
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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Analysemwould Canyon Cross Down Themselves Tightrope Writer
Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Alone Hear Keenness One Review
People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Another Gift Give One People Thing Wrap
The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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Change Function Life Light Make Mystery Sense Such Time Writer
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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Absolutely Country Imagine Influence More Writer
From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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Character Country From Learn Listen People Person Place Story Unsaid Went
Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Censorship Do Literature May Nothing Whatever
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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Between Committed Eye Fade Fint Follow Gap Indifferent Mind Only Out Sagara Sand Trail
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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Always Better Country Feel First Second Stay While Will

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