Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
NADINE GORDIMERLiterature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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Books dont need batteries
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It’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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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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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.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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