A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
NADINE GORDIMERI 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.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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About the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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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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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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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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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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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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