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.
NADINE GORDIMERNewspapers are horror happening to other people.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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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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The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can’t believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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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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