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.
NADINE GORDIMEREveryone ends up moving alone towards the self
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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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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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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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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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Books dont need batteries
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Writing is making sense of life.
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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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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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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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a writer doesn’t only need the time when he’s actually writing – he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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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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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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