Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
NADINE GORDIMERA truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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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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A desert is a place without expectation.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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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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Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
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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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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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