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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.

Nadine Gordimer

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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
NADINE GORDIMER

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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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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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I’m a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can’t see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
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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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It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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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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About the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Answer Other Recognize Yourself

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