All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
NADINE GORDIMERFiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Books dont need batteries
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
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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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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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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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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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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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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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