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It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.

Nadine Gordimer

when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Androgynous Being Come Essential Faculty Writer
Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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Factual Fiction Nothing Say Truthful Write
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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Course Explain Include Life Mystery Personally Purpose Really Write
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
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
Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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After Change Measure Much Passage Thing Time
If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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Decide Destroy Eath Forget Heaven People Rationalism Set Utopia Would
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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Appear Censorship Exile Exist Fragment Genius Index Joyce Longer Mode Place Work
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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All Child Difference Great Living Made Remote Rest Seem Television World
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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a writer doesn’t only need the time when he’s actually writing – he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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Actual Got Need Out She Thing Think Time Work Writer Writing
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
Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Alone End Everyone Move Self Toward
Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Life Limit Music No Span
It’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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Aside Dormer Easier Face Former Humanity Mask Master Put Recognise Slave Underneath

It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.

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