it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
NADINE GORDIMERNewspapers are horror happening to other people.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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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 facts are always less than what really happened.
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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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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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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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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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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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Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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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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