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.
NADINE GORDIMERNothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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About the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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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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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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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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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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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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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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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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