Nadine Gordimer Quotes
I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.
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I lose faith and I lose ground, but then I see you and remember unconditional love.
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Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from Islam. The resemblance of many Sufi ideas to those of several religious and esoteric systems are sometimes taken as evidence of derivation. The Islamic interpretation is that religion is of one origin, differences being due to local or historical causes.
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This is the LM pilot. I'd like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours and to give thanks in his or her own way.
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He was a real thin, real great-in-shape guy, ... Our heart goes out when something like that happens. You usually just imagine one of our guys. It just devastates everybody. It's a huge loss to everybody.
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Does it hurt?” He bent his head and lightly kissed her forehead. “Only when I laugh.” “I’ll try not to be funny.” “Epic fail, beautiful.
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Success depended once again on speed and deception, qualities that residents of the Shenandoah Valley were beginning to associate with Thomas Jackson.
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Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.
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...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.
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Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.
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There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.
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Perhaps Fate laid out your life for you like a dress on a bed, and you could either wear it or go naked.
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I love not knowing what's going to happen next. With work, you never know. You rehearse and strive and get it right sometimes, and still you never know. Some people are like that with their marriages. They work and strive and labour and toil at them. God, what a bore! What an unromantic bore!
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I think that if my voice for some reason changes - because your voice does change - then it's time for me not to sing.
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If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.
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Fear and self-doubt have always been the greatest enemies of human potential.
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I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
