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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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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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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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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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a writer doesn’t only need the time when he’s actually writing – he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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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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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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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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 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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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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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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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