Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
NADINE GORDIMERNothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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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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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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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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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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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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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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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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