Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
NADINE GORDIMERFrom Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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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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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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