The facts are always less than what really happened.
NADINE GORDIMERIt’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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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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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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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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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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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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It’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Books dont need batteries
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Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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