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.
NADINE GORDIMERin writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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Books dont need batteries
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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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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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.
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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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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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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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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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