Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
NADINE GORDIMERYou can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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I never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
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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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September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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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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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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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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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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