As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
NADINE GORDIMERKeenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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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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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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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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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.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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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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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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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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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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