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.
NADINE GORDIMERI cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Communists are the last optimists.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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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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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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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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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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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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It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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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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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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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 caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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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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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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