A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
NADINE GORDIMERVery often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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I 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.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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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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The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can’t believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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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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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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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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