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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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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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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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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
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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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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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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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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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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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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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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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