Music has no limits of a life-span.
NADINE GORDIMERa writer doesn’t only need the time when he’s actually writing – he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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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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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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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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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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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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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If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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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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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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