It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
NADINE GORDIMERDisaster is private, in its way, as love is.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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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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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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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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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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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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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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Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
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If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
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