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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.

Nadine Gordimer

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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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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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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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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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