A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
NADINE GORDIMERKeenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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Books dont need batteries
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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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.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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