My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
NADINE GORDIMEREveryone ends up moving alone towards the self
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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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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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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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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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
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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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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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