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.
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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Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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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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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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