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.
NADINE GORDIMERWritten words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more – absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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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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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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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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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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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Books dont need batteries
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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