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Nadine Gordimer

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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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Life Make Sense Writing
People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Another Gift Give One People Thing Wrap
September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Define Disaster Hold Qualified Sometimes Success
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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Close Day Disappear Frightening Happiness Madness One Quite Solitude Touch Writing
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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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Authority Moral Sacrifice
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
When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Do Know Next Sentiment Those To What
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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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? 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 Thing Writer
Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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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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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
in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Matter Sex Writing
Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Human Being Living Neutral Remain Truly
Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Alone Hear Keenness One Review
The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can’t believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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Among Communist Country Especially Party People Popular Young
The facts are always less than what really happened.
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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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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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Being Certain Consciousness Era Own Select Sense Subject Writer

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