If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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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The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can’t believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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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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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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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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Writing is making sense of life.
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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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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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