I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
NADINE GORDIMEROne can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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It’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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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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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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