Communists are the last optimists.
NADINE GORDIMERWriting is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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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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Books dont need batteries
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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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 caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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I never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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