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.
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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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a writer doesn’t only need the time when he’s actually writing – he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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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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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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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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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Books dont need batteries
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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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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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can’t believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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