Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
NADINE GORDIMERThe truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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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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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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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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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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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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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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