There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
NADINE GORDIMER
when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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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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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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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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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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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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Books dont need batteries
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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