Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
NADINE GORDIMERIf you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Books dont need batteries
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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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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If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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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 a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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