Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
NADINE GORDIMEROne can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
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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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The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can’t believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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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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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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