Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
NADINE GORDIMEREveryone ends up moving alone towards the self
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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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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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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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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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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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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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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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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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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