it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
NADINE GORDIMERWriting is always a voyage of discovery.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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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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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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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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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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