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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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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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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 creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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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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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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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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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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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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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.
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