As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
NADINE GORDIMERThe 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.
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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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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I’m a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can’t see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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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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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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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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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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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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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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