A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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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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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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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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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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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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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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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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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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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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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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