If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
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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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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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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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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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 cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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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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