My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
NADINE GORDIMERThe truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more – absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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About the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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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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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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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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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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