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.
NADINE GORDIMER
Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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About 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.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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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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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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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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