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.
NADINE GORDIMERIn a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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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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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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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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A desert is a place without expectation.
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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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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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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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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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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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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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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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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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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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