I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
NADINE GORDIMERCommunists are the last optimists.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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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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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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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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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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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.
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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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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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