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Nadine Gordimer

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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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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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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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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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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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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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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
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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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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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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 shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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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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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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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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