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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Await Creativity Outside Responsibility
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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Convince Innocence Power Sid Something Womb
Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Certainly Close Feel Free Happier People
It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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Absolutely Betray Have Recieve Talent Think Work Write
Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Alone End Everyone Move Self Toward
The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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Change Function Life Light Make Mystery Sense Such Time Writer
Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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Attempt Book Consciousness Life One Place Really Time Whole
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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Chapter Country Day Life Many One Poem September Story Sunny Thousand Transformation Two Work Writer Year
You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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Basis Change Compassion Got Harder Regime Something
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
NADINE GORDIMER

Act Creative Demand Evidence Exact Ideology Pure Society
Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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After Change Measure Much Passage Thing Time
I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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Being Contempt Human Interested Sufficiently Writer
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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Analysemwould Canyon Cross Down Themselves Tightrope Writer
Books dont need batteries
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Battery Book Need
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
I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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Expect Face Five Forty Leg Nine Twenty

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