I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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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Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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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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Writing is making sense of life.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn’t speak publicly.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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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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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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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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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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