Books dont need batteries
NADINE GORDIMERWhen I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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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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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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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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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 always a voyage of discovery.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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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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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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