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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

Nadine Gordimer

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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Books dont need batteries
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? 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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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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A desert is a place without expectation.
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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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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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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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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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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 facts are always less than what really happened.
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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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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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