Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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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A desert is a place without expectation.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Communists are the last optimists.
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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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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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Books dont need batteries
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