One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
NADINE GORDIMERIf you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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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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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
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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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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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