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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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All Child Difference Great Living Made Remote Rest Seem Television World
Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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Have Ide never Oneself Sincerity
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
You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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Basis Change Compassion Got Harder Regime Something
when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Androgynous Being Come Essential Faculty Writer
The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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Close Day Disappear Frightening Happiness Madness One Quite Solitude Touch Writing
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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Brush Country Dreamt Each Other Life Past Present Street Sunbconcious Walk While
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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Analysemwould Canyon Cross Down Themselves Tightrope Writer
My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Answer Other Recognize Yourself
The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Always Fact Happen Less Really What
Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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All Any Ariely Bloody Genius Hope Light Olay Pocket Sudden Through Torch Worth Write Yet
I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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Citizen Closely Country Much Other Own Part Relate Think Very World
In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
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Become Certainty Country Help Known Nuisance Overseas South Value Writer
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
The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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Become Cage Eagle Form Imprisonment Isolation Metaphor Prison Ultimate Zoo
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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