Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
NADINE GORDIMERThe Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can’t believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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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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Books dont need batteries
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn’t speak publicly.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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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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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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