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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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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I never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
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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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The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
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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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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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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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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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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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Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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