People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
NADINE GORDIMERin writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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In 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.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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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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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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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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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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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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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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