My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
NADINE GORDIMERThere is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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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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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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I never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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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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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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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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If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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