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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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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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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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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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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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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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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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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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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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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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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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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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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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