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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Nadine Gordimer

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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.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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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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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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I never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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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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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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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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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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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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