Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
NADINE GORDIMERThe tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Writing is making sense of life.
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a writer doesn’t only need the time when he’s actually writing – he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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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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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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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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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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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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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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