One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
NADINE GORDIMERThe gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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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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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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I never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
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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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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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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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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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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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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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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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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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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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