I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
NADINE GORDIMERDisaster is private, in its way, as love is.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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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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Very 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.
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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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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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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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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.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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