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.
NADINE GORDIMERMy answer is: Recognize yourself in others
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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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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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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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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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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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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