Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
NADINE GORDIMERA child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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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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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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Books dont need batteries
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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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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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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I never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
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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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