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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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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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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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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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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 caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Communists are the last optimists.
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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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I’m a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can’t see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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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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