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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.

Nadine Gordimer

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A desert is a place without expectation.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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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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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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