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.
NADINE GORDIMERA truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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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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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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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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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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