If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
NADINE GORDIMERNothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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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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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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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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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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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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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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