Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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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If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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Books dont need batteries
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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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I’m a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can’t see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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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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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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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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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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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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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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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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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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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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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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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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