Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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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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I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
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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 facts are always less than what really happened.
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Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.
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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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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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Among the group of people waiting at the fortress was a schoolgirl in a brown and yellow uniform holding a green eiderdown quilt and, by the loop at its neck, a red hot-water bottle.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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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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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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There is a paradox. In retaining this integrity, the writer sometimes must risk both the state's indictment of treason, and the liberation forces' complaint of lack of blind commitment.
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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I opened the telegram and said, 'He's dead -' and as I looked up into Graham Mill's gaze I saw that he knew who, before I could say.
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Presence of death standing by makes a sacrament of tenuous relationships.
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Death's the discarder.