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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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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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Books dont need batteries
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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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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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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Certain Circumstance Go Individual Object Out Turn Various Vital
In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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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
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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Certainly Close Feel Free Happier People
Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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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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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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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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