Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
NADINE GORDIMERWriting is always a voyage of discovery.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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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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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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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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Books dont need batteries
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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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 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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