Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
NADINE GORDIMERI cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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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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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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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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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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