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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More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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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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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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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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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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