Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
NADINE GORDIMERSuccess sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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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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About the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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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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In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
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Books dont need batteries
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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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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