It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
NADINE GORDIMERSentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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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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September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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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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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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