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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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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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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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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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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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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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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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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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It’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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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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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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