Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
NADINE GORDIMERIf 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.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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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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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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Books dont need batteries
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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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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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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