A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
NADINE GORDIMERThe truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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 truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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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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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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I’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.
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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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