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.
NADINE GORDIMERThere is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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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’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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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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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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