The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
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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Writing is making sense of life.
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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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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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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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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Rebirth. 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.
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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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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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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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