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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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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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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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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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Animal Bless Curse Faculty Higher Human Only Regard Self Torture Want Why
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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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Censorship Do Literature May Nothing Whatever
Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Define Disaster Hold Qualified Sometimes Success
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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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Another Gift Give One People Thing Wrap
My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Answer Other Recognize Yourself
There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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Beauty Filling Moral No
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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