The facts are always less than what really happened.
NADINE GORDIMERIn 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.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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I never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
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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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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
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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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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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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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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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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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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
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