If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
NADINE GORDIMERTime is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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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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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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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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