I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
NADINE GORDIMERMy answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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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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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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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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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
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