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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.

Nadine Gordimer

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
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
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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Decide Destroy Eath Forget Heaven People Rationalism Set Utopia Would
Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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Country Fall Learn Life Sent Surface Through
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
What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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Course Explain Include Life Mystery Personally Purpose Really Write
a writer doesn’t only need the time when he’s actually writing – he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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Actual Got Need Out She Thing Think Time Work Writer Writing
The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can’t believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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Among Communist Country Especially Party People Popular Young
There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Authority Moral Sacrifice
I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Autobiography Jealous Much never Privacy Shall That
Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.
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Afraid Already Answerable Best Dead One Perhaps Reaction View Way Write
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
Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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After Change Measure Much Passage Thing Time
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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Brush Country Dreamt Each Other Life Past Present Street Sunbconcious Walk While
Books dont need batteries
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Battery Book Need
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

I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.

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