Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
NADINE GORDIMERPerhaps 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.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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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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Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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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 learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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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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About the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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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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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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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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