Writing is making sense of life.
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 shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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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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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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Books dont need batteries
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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