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.
NADINE GORDIMERThe facts are always less than what really happened.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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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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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Books dont need batteries
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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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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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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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