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.
NADINE GORDIMERYour 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.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Books dont need batteries
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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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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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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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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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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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