Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
NADINE GORDIMERDisaster is private, in its way, as love is.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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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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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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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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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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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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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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