Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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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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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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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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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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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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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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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