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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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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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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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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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In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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Have Ide never Oneself Sincerity
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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But Explore Fiction Life Live Possibility Present Single Undreamt Way
Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
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Bring Chosen Country Fundamental People Sense Well
in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Matter Sex Writing
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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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All Come Individual Privately Purse Vision Worthwhile Writing

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