The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.

Quote by Nadine Gordimer

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

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...

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...

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...

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 primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age...

The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

A desert is a place without expectation.

A desert is a place without expectation.

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

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

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...

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.