when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
NADINE GORDIMERA desert is a place without expectation.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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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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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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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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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The 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.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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