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.

Quote by Nadine Gordimer

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The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made...

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made...

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women...

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women...

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed...

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed...

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

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

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made...

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made...

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses...

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses...

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses...

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses...

People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

A desert is a place without expectation.

A desert is a place without expectation.

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on...

The facts are always less than what really happened.

The facts are always less than what really happened.

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid...

From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid...

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

You have given me a great responsibility: to stay close to you, to be worthy...

You have given me a great responsibility: to stay close to you, to be worthy...

In times like these men should utter nothing for which they would not be willingly...

In times like these men should utter nothing for which they would not be willingly...

Marx and Freud are the two great destroyers of Christian civilization, the first replacing the...

Marx and Freud are the two great destroyers of Christian civilization, the first replacing the...