Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
NADINE GORDIMERit’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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Books dont need batteries
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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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About the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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a writer doesn’t only need the time when he’s actually writing – he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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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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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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