My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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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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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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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I never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
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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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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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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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A desert is a place without expectation.
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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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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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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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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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