I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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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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It’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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