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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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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
A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Bring Child Fear Hate Hurt Understand
The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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Being Between Fully Make Standing Tension Writer
I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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Expect Face Five Forty Leg Nine Twenty
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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All Any Ariely Bloody Genius Hope Light Olay Pocket Sudden Through Torch Worth Write Yet
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
Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Certainly Close Feel Free Happier People
Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Do Know Next Sentiment Those To What
People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Another Gift Give One People Thing Wrap
Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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Animal Bless Curse Faculty Higher Human Only Regard Self Torture Want Why
My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Answer Other Recognize Yourself
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Await Creativity Outside Responsibility
Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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After Change Measure Much Passage Thing Time
Writing is making sense of life.
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Life Make Sense Writing
Communists are the last optimists.
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Communist Lat Optimist
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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Abstraction Always Another Country Desirable Embarrassing Exist God Pamphlet Thank Tourist

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