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.
NADINE GORDIMERMusic has no limits of a life-span.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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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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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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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Books dont need batteries
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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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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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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 a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can’t see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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