Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
NADINE GORDIMERI have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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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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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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Books dont need batteries
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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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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