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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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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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Certainly Close Feel Free Happier People
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
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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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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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Matter Sex Writing
One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Come Confidence Measure Mood
In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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Certain Circumstance Go Individual Object Out Turn Various Vital
From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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Character Country From Learn Listen People Person Place Story Unsaid Went
Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Do Know Next Sentiment Those To What
Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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Amazing Best Bring Human Nature Power Word Worst Written
Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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Fade Nothing Quickly So Unchnage
Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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Interview Most People Identified Society
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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it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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Account Always Conquer Desolation Fear Impossible Loss Preparation Source Taken

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