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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.

Nadine Gordimer

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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
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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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Writing is making sense of life.
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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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Being Certain Consciousness Era Own Select Sense Subject Writer
Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? 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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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Await Creativity Outside Responsibility
Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Do Know Next Sentiment Those To What
Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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Amazing Best Bring Human Nature Power Word Worst Written
Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Can Live Me Not Someone Without
From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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