My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
NADINE GORDIMERAbout the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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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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Books dont need batteries
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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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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A desert is a place without expectation.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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