I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
NADINE GORDIMERNewspapers are horror happening to other people.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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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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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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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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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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