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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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Area Life Made Make Perhaps Sense Small Writing
Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Certainly Close Feel Free Happier People
Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Disaster Private Way Love
I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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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.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Alone End Everyone Move Self Toward
September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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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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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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Life Make Sense Writing
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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Always Beauty Hunger Truth
Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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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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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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Books dont need batteries
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Battery Book Need
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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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Androgynous Being Come Essential Faculty Writer
I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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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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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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