A desert is a place without expectation.
NADINE GORDIMERI cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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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 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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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more – absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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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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It’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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Books dont need batteries
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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