Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
NADINE GORDIMERA child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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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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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn’t speak publicly.
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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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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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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