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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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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
I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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Citizen Closely Country Much Other Own Part Relate Think Very World
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Await Creativity Outside Responsibility
A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Human Being Living Neutral Remain Truly
The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Always Beauty Hunger Truth
Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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After Change Measure Much Passage Thing Time
Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Certainly Close Feel Free Happier People
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
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
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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Area Censorship Feel Few Identity Literature One Purpose Some Struggle
The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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Become Cage Eagle Form Imprisonment Isolation Metaphor Prison Ultimate Zoo
There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Authority Moral Sacrifice
Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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Interview Most People Identified Society
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
Books dont need batteries
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Battery Book Need
A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Bring Child Fear Hate Hurt Understand

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