If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
NADINE GORDIMERI cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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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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a writer doesn’t only need the time when he’s actually writing – he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
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Books dont need batteries
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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