when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
NADINE GORDIMERAs writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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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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I’m a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can’t see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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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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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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About the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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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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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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