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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More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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About the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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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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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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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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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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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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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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