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.
NADINE GORDIMERA desert is a place without expectation.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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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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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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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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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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Books dont need batteries
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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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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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