Very 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.
NADINE GORDIMERResponsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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About the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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I’m a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can’t see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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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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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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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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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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