Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
NADINE GORDIMERNothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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I never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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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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