There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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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If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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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Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Books dont need batteries
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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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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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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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