I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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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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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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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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Books dont need batteries
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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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