As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
NADINE GORDIMERRebirth. 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.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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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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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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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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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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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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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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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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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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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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