Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
NADINE GORDIMERResponsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn’t speak publicly.
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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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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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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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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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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