Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
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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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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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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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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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. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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