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The facts are always less than what really happened.

Nadine Gordimer

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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.
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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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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
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
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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Currently Need never No Obligation Own Private Talk Work Write
As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Existence Explore Myself Mystery Writer
Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Life Limit Music No Span
Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Alone Hear Keenness One Review
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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Horror Known Miracle One Ought Saint Suffer
it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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Account Always Conquer Desolation Fear Impossible Loss Preparation Source Taken
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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Convince Innocence Power Sid Something Womb
If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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Act Creative Demand Evidence Exact Ideology Pure Society
Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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Have Ide never Oneself Sincerity
Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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Fade Nothing Quickly So Unchnage
Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Define Disaster Hold Qualified Sometimes Success

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