when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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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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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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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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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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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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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