Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
NADINE GORDIMERThe gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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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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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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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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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.
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