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.
NADINE GORDIMERVery often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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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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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? 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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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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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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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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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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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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Books dont need batteries
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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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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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