I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
NADINE GORDIMERSincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
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a writer doesn’t only need the time when he’s actually writing – he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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I’m a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can’t see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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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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