Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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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.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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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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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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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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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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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Books dont need batteries
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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 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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