I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
NADINE GORDIMERNewspapers are horror happening to other people.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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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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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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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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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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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.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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