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.
NADINE GORDIMERKeenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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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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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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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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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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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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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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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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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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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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