Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
NADINE GORDIMERSentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Books dont need batteries
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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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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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a 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.
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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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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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