Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
NADINE GORDIMERPeople give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? 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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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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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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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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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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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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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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