One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn’t speak publicly.
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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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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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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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