If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
NADINE GORDIMERSuccess sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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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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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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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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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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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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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
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