My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
NADINE GORDIMERFrom Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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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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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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It’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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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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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more – absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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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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