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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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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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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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After Change Measure Much Passage Thing Time
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Bring Child Fear Hate Hurt Understand
The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Always Beauty Hunger Truth
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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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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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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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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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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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Another Gift Give One People Thing Wrap
About the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Alone End Everyone Move Self Toward

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