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.
NADINE GORDIMERNewspapers are horror happening to other people.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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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 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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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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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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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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