People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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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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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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