Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
NADINE GORDIMERI’m a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can’t see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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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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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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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Books dont need batteries
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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