I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
NADINE GORDIMERCertainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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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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it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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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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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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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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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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If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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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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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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