A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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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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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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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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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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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I’m a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can’t see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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