Music has no limits of a life-span.
NADINE GORDIMERNewspapers are horror happening to other people.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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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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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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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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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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