If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
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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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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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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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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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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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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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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