A desert is a place without expectation.
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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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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a writer doesn’t only need the time when he’s actually writing – he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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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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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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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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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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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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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