A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
NADINE GORDIMERSuccess sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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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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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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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
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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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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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