Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
NADINE GORDIMERI 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.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Books dont need batteries
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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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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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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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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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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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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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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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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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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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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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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