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.
NADINE GORDIMER
Peace. 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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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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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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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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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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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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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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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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It’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
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