A desert is a place without expectation.
NADINE GORDIMERWriting is always a voyage of discovery.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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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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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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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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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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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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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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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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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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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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Books dont need batteries
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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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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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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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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Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
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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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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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