Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
NADINE GORDIMERIt was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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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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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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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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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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