The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
NADINE GORDIMERPeace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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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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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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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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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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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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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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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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About the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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