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.
NADINE GORDIMERFiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can’t believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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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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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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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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Writing is making sense 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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Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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