People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
NADINE GORDIMERPeople give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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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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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
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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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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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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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I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn’t speak publicly.
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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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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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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