Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
NADINE GORDIMERThere is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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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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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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Books dont need batteries
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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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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can’t believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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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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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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