Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.
NADINE GORDIMERThe facts are always less than what really happened.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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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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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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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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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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Books dont need batteries
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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 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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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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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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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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