Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more – absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
NADINE GORDIMERMusic has no limits of a life-span.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
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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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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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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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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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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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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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