Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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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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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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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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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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Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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