You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
NADINE GORDIMERCertainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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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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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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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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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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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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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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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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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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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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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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 have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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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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