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

Nadine Gordimer

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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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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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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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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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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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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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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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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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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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Writing is making sense of life.
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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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