Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
NADINE GORDIMERI shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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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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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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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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Writing is making sense of life.
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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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