Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
NADINE GORDIMERThe facts are always less than what really happened.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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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.
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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
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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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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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