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.
NADINE GORDIMERI have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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Books dont need batteries
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I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn’t speak publicly.
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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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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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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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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