Writing is making sense of life.
NADINE GORDIMERWhen 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.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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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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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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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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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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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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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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Books dont need batteries
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